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Article: Ann Radcliffe: The Great Enchantress.
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- Studies in the Novel
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- March 22, 1997
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MILES, ROBERT. Ann Radcliffe: The Great Enchantress (New York: Manchester University Press, 1995). vi + 201 pp. $49.95 cloth; $19.95 paper.
The resurgence of interest in gothic novels and romances over the last ten years has created a body of criticism that tends to be a great deal more provocative and interesting than the novels themselves. Jacqueline Howard's Reading Gothic Fiction, for instance, manages to give a fairly coherent Bakhtinian reading of the gothic novel, while Kate Ellis and several of the scholars gathered in Julian Fleenor's The Female Gothic have pursued a productive rethinking of family relations and the role of the heroine in the gothic. But ...