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Ann Radcliffe (née Ward; 9 July 1764 – 7 February 1823) was an English novelist, a pioneer of Gothic fiction, and a minor poet. Her technique of explaining apparently supernatural elements in her novels has been credited with gaining respectability for Gothic fiction in the 1790s. [1]
Radcliffe refined the crude sensationalism of the gothic novel so that it became a vehicle for sensibility, the sublime, and the picturesque.
2 Οκτ 2020 · Ann Radcliffe was a pioneer of the gothic literary genre. Her inspirations were The Castle of Otranto (1764) by Horace Walpole, often named the first gothic novel; The Old English Baron (1777) by Clara Reeve, and The Recess; Or, a Tale of Other Times (1783–1785) by Sophia Lee (Miles, 2004 4).
23 Νοε 2016 · Ann Radcliffe, Romanticism and the Gothic dramatizes the distance between the self and the world for the education of an ethical way of seeing the moral beauty of the created order and
Moreover, it also marked the 250th birthday of Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823), the leading figure of Gothic fiction in the 1790s, whose novels, such as the bestselling The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) or The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents (1796–97), reformulated the Walpolean model of a Gothic story.
1 Ιαν 2022 · Ann Radcliffe’s late eighteenth-century romances are foundational to the development of the Gothic mode. This chapter outlines the ways in which recognisable Gothic motifs arise in her novels and her travel writing and illuminates her essay ‘On the...
Ann Ward Radcliffe—hers was a household name in the 18th-century, one that we know next to nothing about. She was a pioneer of Gothic fiction over two hundred years ago, and we still don't know much about her aside from her published works.
