Literarischer #9Juli

„A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice.“

#AnnRadcliffe #TheMysteriesOfUdolpho Geburt 1764

𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗨𝗱𝗼𝗹𝗽𝗵𝗼" 𝗯𝘆 𝗔𝗻𝗻 𝗥𝗮𝗱𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲 -

Radcliffe's pioneering but meandering work is a massive gothic/idyll with a problematic heroine and absurd plot of static characters.

https://buff.ly/4haqIkZ

#bookreviews #books #bookworm #readreadread #annwardradcliffe #annradcliffe #themysteriesofudolpho #gothic #romance #classic

I Waked One Morning From a Dream: What Is Gothic Literature?

There have been many nights when I’ve laid awake wondering: What makes a book Gothic? Who decides what is and isn’t Gothic fiction? And why, why, why do I keep reading them?

It’s time to reveal the truth about Gothic literature. Together, we’ll unravel the fragments, falsehoods and frame narratives to separate fact from fiction. Interrogate Gothic literature’s most renowned writers – including Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis. And find out why this obscure, 200-year-old genre is still haunting us today.

#18thCentury #19thCentury #20thCentury #AnnRadcliffe #AnneRice #BramStoker #Falsehood #Fragment #FrameNarrative #HoraceWalpole #MarkZDanielewski #MaryShelley #MatthewLewis #MaxBrooks #ShirleyJackson #StephenKing

https://gothicdispatch.com/what-is-gothic-literature-introductio/

𝟯 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: “𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗨𝗱𝗼𝗹𝗽𝗵𝗼” 𝗯𝘆 𝗔𝗻𝗻 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗮𝗱𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲 -

Radcliffe's sprawling and pioneering Gothic romance is a raw construct, unwieldy in plot and contrivance, problematic in characterization, but a decent pastoral work.

https://buff.ly/49QVRXP

#bookreviews #books #bookworm #readreadread #3words #annradcliffe #annwardradcliffe #udolpho #mysteriesofudolpho #gothic #gothicliterature

#Halloween Countdown, Day 6

A second #AnnRadcliffe novel read and savored by women working in the 19th-century mills in Lowell, Massachusetts was The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794).

Quote: “… I am not so much afraid of faeries, as of ghosts, and they say there are a plentiful many of them about the castle; now I should be frightened to death, if I should chance to see any of them. But hush! ma’amselle, walk softly! I have thought, several times, something passed by me.”

Text: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3268/3268-h/3268-h.htm

#Halloween2024 #31DaysHalloween24 #Gothic

'The queen of suspense: how #AnnRadcliffe inspired #Dickens and #Austen – then got written out of the canon

She was all but forgotten. Now the 18th-century author’s republished novels reveal why she made such an extraordinary contribution to literature'
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/06/the-queen-of-suspense-how-ann-radcliffe-inspired-dickens-and-austen-then-got-written-out-of-the-canon
#bookstadon

Some love for pioneer of gothic writing Ann Radcliffe:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/06/the-queen-of-suspense-how-ann-radcliffe-inspired-dickens-and-austen-then-got-written-out-of-the-canon

#gothic #AnnRadcliffe

#Halloween Countdown, Day 5

Another title very popular with women working in 19th-century mills in Lowell, Massachusetts was The Romance of the Forest (1791) by the mother of the #Gothic, #AnnRadcliffe.

Quote: “She saw herself surrounded by the darkness and stillness of night, in a strange place, far distant from any friends, going she scarcely knew whither, under the guidance of strangers, and pursued, perhaps, by an inveterate enemy.”

Text: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64701

#Halloween2024 #31DaysHalloween24

Ann Radcliffe, Gaston de Blondeville, London : H. Colburn, 1826, pp. 20-21.

Nous fêtions le 9 juillet dernier le 260e anniversaire de la romancière britannique Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823), pionnière du roman gothique.

#annradcliffe