Gothic Utopia: Heretical Sanctuary in Ann Radcliffe's The Italian.(Critical Essay)
From: Utopian Studies
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Date: 3/22/2000
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Author: TOOLEY, BRENDA
ANN RADCLIFFE PUBLISHED her last Gothic novel, The Italian, in 1797, at the end of a decade of political turmoil and violence occasioned by the French Revolution and the increasingly repressive British response both to events across the Channel and to dissent at home. Radcliffe's Gothic tale participates in a strategy whereby British Gothic writers situate their novels at a discreet distance (spatially and/or temporally) from current events while at the same time commenting upon ...
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