Women's Gothic: From Clara Reeve to Mary ShelleyA volume in the Writers and Their Work series, which draws upon recent thinking in English studies to introduce writers and their contexts. Each volume includes biographical material, an examination of recent criticism, a bibliography and a reappraisal of a major work by the writer. |
Contents
Clara Reeve and Sophia Lee 25 | 25 |
Ann Radcliffe | 51 |
Joanna Baillie and Charlotte Dacre | 85 |
Copyright | |
4 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
Adeline aesthetic Ann Radcliffe appear Athlin and Dunbayne attempt audience Baillie's Byron Carhart Castle of Otranto character Charlotte Dacre Clara Reeve crime critics Dacre's daughter death Drury Lane edition effect Ellena Ellinor Emily emotion epigraphs father fear feelings female fiction Frankenstein Gaston de Blondeville genius genre Godwin Gothic fiction Gothic writing heroine horror Hours of Solitude imagination Italian Jane Joanna Baillie Lady Macbeth Lewis Lilla literary London Mary Shelley Matilda mind Monfort Monk moral murder Mysteries of Udolpho narrative narrator nature novel Old English Baron original Orra Oxford University Press passions Percy play plot poem poet poetic poetry portrait published Radcliffe's reader Reeve's Review role Sarah Siddons scene Schedoni sentiment Shakespeare Shelley's Sicilian Romance Siddons's sister Sophia Lee soul story sublime supernatural tale terror theatre tragedy tragic Victoria villain Walpole Walter Scott William woman women writers women's Gothic York Zofloya