Gothics, ghosts, and and l'écriture-femme

A Sicilian Romance

and

The Romance of the Forest

by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Alfonso Simonetti, Ancor Non Torna, illustration for 19th century Italian translation of Radcliffe’s Romance of the Forest

From January through April 2004 a group of us on EighteenthCenturyWorlds@Yahoo began a reading and discussion of Ann Radcliffe's Romance of the Forst (1791). We were a small group: myself, Susanne, Judy Geater, Leslie Robertson, Dagny Wilson, Joan Wall. This was, however, not the only time I read and discussed this novel with other people online. So I also include other postings on this book which I and others wrote on other lists (including EighteenthCenturyNovels and Janeites, both @ Yahoo, C18-l, and Litalk-l) and Radcliffe's earlier successful female gothic, A Sicilian Romance. The interested reader will also find essay-postings by me on Rictor Norton's biography of her life, pictorialism, the sublime, and some of good criticism of the gothic genre (e.g., Coral Ann Howells's Love, Mystery and Misery, Elizabeth Napier's The Failure of the Gothic, Juliann Fleenor's The Female Gothic, Diane Long Hoeveler's Gothic Feminism, and Judith Wilt's Ghosts of the Gothic).

A Sicilian Romance

The Romance of the Forest

A list of good general books


Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) Carceri, V

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