#ann-radcliffe — Public Fediverse posts
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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.
#bookreviews #books #bookworm #readreadread #annwardradcliffe #annradcliffe #themysteriesofudolpho #gothic #romance #classic
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#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
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Some love for pioneer of gothic writing Ann Radcliffe:
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#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.”
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“… in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them…. I know you will say, that you are contented sometimes to suffer, rather than to give up your refined sense of happiness, at others; but, when your mind has been long harassed by vicissitude, you will be content to rest... You will perceive, that the phantom of happiness is exchanged for the substance; for happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.”
#AnnRadcliffe #TheMysteriesOfUdolpho #Gothic #18thCenturyLit -
Happy birthday to the mother of the #Gothic, Ann Radcliffe, born #OTD in 1764. #Books #Bookstodon
“A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness. Store it with ideas, teach it the pleasure of thinking; and the temptations of the world without, will be counteracted by the gratifications derived from the world within.” ― #AnnRadcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)
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Nicht nur Geheimnisvolles und Übersinnliches bieten ihre #Geschichten, auch ihre #Frauenfiguren entfalten sich für die damalige Zeit erstaunlich. Zum 260. Geburtstag von #AnnRadcliffe lesen Sie den Artikel des Tages https://www.dwds.de/wb/emanzipieren
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#LeoAutorasOct #LeoAutorasOctubre
Por ahora
#AnnRadcliffe Los Misterios de Udolfo
#MCBeaton aka #MarionChesney Down the Hatch (pero no cuenta porque no sabía que Marion Chesney había fallecido y es su sustituto quien escribió éste bajo el mismo pseudónimo)
#LouisaMayAlcott Mujercitas (edición americana, es decir, Little Women, antes de la elipsis)
#DianaWynneJones HexwoodY ahora
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CW: Spoilers menores de Los Misterios de Udolfo
Un dato curioso conforme leo #LosMisteriosDeUdolfo #TheMysteriesOfUdolpho es que el único personaje que destaca el género femenino de la protagonista como forma de desmerecer su opinión o sus talentos es el villano.
Ningún otro personaje, ni entre los antagonistas ni entre los secundarios, llega a evocar esto de ninguna forma.
Sólo el villano signore Montoni dice frases como "Un capricho que debía haber esperado de tu sexo".Deja muy claro la opinión de #AnnRadcliffe , a principios del XIX, sobre ese tipo de comentarios.
Hmmm
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#Booktodon #Books #Libros #Livres
New Life, new books
Books read / Libros leídos / Livres lus
#It #StephenKing But *that* scène, very very well / Excepto *esa* escena, muy muy bien / Sauf *la* scène , très très bien
Book reading / Libro leyendo
#TheGoldfinch #ElJilguero #DonnaTartt last 100 pages are so great! Long worthfull travel / Las últimas 100 páginas son la leche. Un viaje largo pero lo merece / Les derniers 100 pages sont géniales. Un voyage long mais ça vaut la peine
Books in stand-by / Libros en espera/ Livres en attend
#TheMysteriesOfUdolpho #LosMisteriosDeUdolfo #AnnRadcliffe
Books targeted / Libros en la mirilla / Livres dans la cible
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Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian (1796). One of the masterpieces of the first wave of gothic fiction. Absurdly complicated and melodramatic and and the characterisations are crude.
The book does have considerable strengths though. She is exceptionally good at creating suspense and in ratcheting up the tension. And a reader in the 1790s would have found it easier to empathise with characters obsessed with family honour.
My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2014/12/ann-radcliffes-italian.html