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Revolution and Romanticism
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A facsimile reprint in the Revolution & Romanticism series chosen and introduced by Jonathan Wordsworth ISBN 1 85477 190 6 174 x 110 mm 498 pages, |
ANN RADCLIFFE A Sicilian Romance 1792 First published in 1790, Ann Radcliffe’s second novel establishes the conventions underlying Romance of the Forest (1791) and Mysteries of Udolpho (1794). There are the same interest in the picturesque, the same mundane explanation for the supernatural, the same horrific set-pieces which so deliciously excited Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey. In his introduction to this edition, Jonathan Wordsworth places her in the tradition of the Burkean sublime, showing what her writing meant to Coleridge, Wordsworth, and to her fellow-novelist Scott, who wrote: ‘Adventures heaped on adventures, in quick and brilliant succession, with all the hair-breadth charms of escape or capture, hurry the reader along with them, and the imagery and scenery by which the action is relieved are like those of a splendid oriental tale.’ £42 $65 Isabella Thorpe: But my dearest Catherine, what have you been doing with yourself all this morning? Have you gone on with Udolpho? |
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