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The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762-1800 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
 List Price: Price: $33.19 You Save: $4.81 (13%) DescriptionA genre of supernatural fiction was among the more improbable products of the Age of Enlightenment. This book questions the historical reasons for its growing popularity in the late eighteenth century. Beginning with the notorious case of the Cock Lane ghost, a performing poltergeist who became a major attraction in London in 1762, and with Garrick's spellbinding and paradigmatic performance as the ghost-seeing Hamlet, it moves on to look at the Gothic novels of Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, M. G. Lewis, and others, in unexpected new lights, drawing out the connection between fictions of the supernatural and the growth of consumerism.
The Feminization Debate in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Literature, Commerce and Luxury (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print)
 List Price: Price: $136.99 You Save: $0.01 (%) DescriptionIn the eighteenth century, critics of capitalism denounced the growth of luxury and effeminacy; supporters applauded the increase of refinement and the improved status of women. This pioneering study explores the way the association of commerce and femininity permeated cultural production. It looks at the first use of a female author as an icon of modernity in the Athenian Mercury, and reappraises works by Elizabeth Singer Rowe, Mandeville, Defoe, Pope and Elizabeth Carter. Samuel Richardson's novels represent the culmination of the English debate, while contemporary essays by David Hume move towards a fully-fledged enlightenment theory of feminization.
The Italian: Or the Confessional of the Black Penitents; A Romance (Oxford World's Classics)
 List Price: Price: $11.99 DescriptionFirst published in 1797, The Italian is Ann Radcliffe's classic creation of Gothic romance. Set against the backdrop of the Holy Inquisition, the narrative revolves around the sinister and mysterious monk, Father Schedoni, and the ill fated lovers, Ellena Rosalba and Vincentio di Vivaldi. With a new introduction and updated notes, this edition examines the formal, historical, and political aspects of Radcliffe's most brilliant work.
Women's Gothic (Writers and their Work)
 List Price: Price: $17.94 You Save: $8.06 (31%) DescriptionAn updated edition of this popular study of the major women writers of Gothic literature:Clara Reeve, Sophia Lee, Ann Radcliffe,Joanna Baillie, Charlotte Dacre and Mary Shelley whose Frankenstein (1818) has attained mythical status. This is an exciting introduction to an important literary mode.
The Italian (Oxford World's Classics)
 List Price: Price: $6.51 You Save: $5.44 (46%) DescriptionFirst published in 1797, The Italian is one of the finest examples of Gothic romance. The fast-paced, narrative centres on Ann Radcliffe's most brilliant creation, the sinister monk Schedoni, whose past is shrouded in mystery.From the novel's opening chapters the reader is ushered into a shadowy world in which crime and religion are mingled. In the church of Santa Maria del Pianto in Naples, Ellena Rosalba and Vincentio di Vivaldi first meet; but their love is ill-omened. Leagued against them are the proud and ambitious Marchese di Vivaldi and her confessor Father Schedoni. When Ellena vanishes on the death of her guardian, Vivaldi sets out in pursuit of her across the mountainous regions of southern Italy before himself falling prey to the Holy Inquisition. This revised and expanded edition explores the novel in the context of British attitudes to Italy and Roman Catholicism in the late eighteenth century with close attention to the novel's style and form. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Women's Gothic: From Clara Reeve to Mary Shelley (Writers and Their Work)
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