scholarly journals THE MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (16) ◽  
pp. 51-64
Author(s):  
Lainister De Oliveira Esteves
Keyword(s):  
Ann Radcliffe ◽  
The Mysteries Of Udolpho

O objetivo deste artigo é analisar a recepção inicial de The Mysteries of Udolpho, terceiro romance de Ann Radcliffe. O artigo investiga o debate acerca do sobrenatural na obra e como este mobilizou questões centrais acerca do desenvolvimento do romance e da crítica literária no século XVIII.Palavras-chave: fantástico; romance gótico; crítica literária

Ann Radcliffe’s Classical Remembrances

2020 ◽  
pp. 85-120
Author(s):  
James Uden
Keyword(s):  
Travel Literature ◽  
Ann Radcliffe ◽  
Wall Paintings ◽  
Classical Literature ◽  
Strong Case ◽  
Classical World ◽  
Roman Antiquity ◽  
The Mysteries Of Udolpho

This chapter examines the role of classical literature in the life and writings of Ann Radcliffe. A strong case can be made for Radcliffe’s awareness of, and interest in, classical literature, even if it is impossible to claim decisively that she could read Latin. First, it examines allusions to Greek and Roman antiquity in The Romance of the Forest (1791) and The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794). These allusions are used to articulate an ethical sensibility for these novels’ heroines: they are susceptible to the grandeur and sublimity of the classical world, and yet direct their attention and sympathy not to heroes or leaders but to the innocent victims of grand ambition. The second part of the chapter examines Radcliffe’s work of travel literature. In this work, the Roman historian Tacitus is quoted in Latin three times, in each case to describe the traces of war and suffering in the places that Radcliffe and her husband visit. Finally, the chapter turns to Radcliffe’s final novel published in her lifetime, The Italian (1797), in which the eroticism of Herculaneum wall paintings, and the shadowy walls of a Roman fort are sources of terror for the novel’s heroine and hero.

scholarly journals Rozrywki „serc czułych” w „Tajemnicach zamku Udolpho” Ann Radcliffe w świetle pism Jana Jakuba Rousseau

2018 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 41-47
Author(s):  
Magda Ebert
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Free Time ◽  
Ann Radcliffe ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Mysteries Of Udolpho

The entertainments of „tender hearts” in Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho in the light of Jean Jacques Rousseau’s worksIn the second half of the 18th century, English literature was influenced by sentimentality. One of the most talented writers of this time was Ann Radcliffe. She created the novel by combining the Gothic romance with the novel of sensibility. Radcliffe in her works formed two contrasting groups of heroes: honest and virtuous, and hypocritical and cruel people. With the diversity of character stemmed variety of preferred pastimes. In this article I discuss excerpts from novel The Mysteries of Udolpho, which describe ways of spending free time by the main characters and I show their relationship with the works of the philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau.

scholarly journals Dangers, Delights, Development: Female Travel in The Mysteries of Udolpho and The Turkish Embassy Letters

Spectrum ◽  
2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Stanski
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Psychological Effects ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Ann Radcliffe ◽  
Women Readers ◽  
Domestic Sphere ◽  
The World ◽  
The Mysteries Of Udolpho

This paper examines the portrayal of travel for women in two eighteenth-century literary texts by women writers: The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe and The Turkish Embassy Letters by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. With a focus on the mental, emotional, and psychological effects of female travel that each author depicts, it analyzes both the dramatic dangers and pleasures faced by Radcliffe’s Gothic heroine and the more mild, cerebral ones experienced by the historical Montagu. Drawing on the work of Marianna D’Ezio, Adam Watkins, and Mary Jo Kietzman, it argues that both Radcliffe and Montagu ultimately endorsed the idea of travel for women through their work, portraying the pleasure, experience, and self-cultivation it afforded as outweighing its dangers. Finally, it posits that this position resisted both Enlightenment and Romantic ideas of appropriate female behaviours and desires by encouraging women readers to experience the world outside of the domestic sphere.

The Gothic Element in Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 19-31
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Ann Radcliffe ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Mysteries Of Udolpho ◽  
Main Ideas

The paper attempts to analyse the gothic element in Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794). The paper presents the study in the essay form and it begins with a presentation of the gothic romance and its significance, characteristics and nature as a genre and in the novel of this study. The paper points out the types of the gothic school for Radcliffe is a representative of the school of terror while Lewis the school of horror. The study concentrates on Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho as a gothic romance which narrates the story of Emily St. Aubert, and Valencourt, who faced a thousand obstacles, and perils thrown in their way. The heroine finds herself separated from the man she loves, and confined within the medieval castle of her aunt's new husband, Montoni. Inside the castle, she must cope with an unwanted suitor, Montoni's threats, and the wild imaginings and terrors that threaten to overwhelm her. The study ends with a conclusion that states the main ideas in the study. Key words: Gothic element, Gothic Romamce, Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, terror, horror

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