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Article: Gothic Utopia: Heretical Sanctuary in Ann Radcliffe's The Italian.(Critical Essay)
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- Utopian Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 2000
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ANN RADCLIFFE PUBLISHED her last Gothic novel, The Italian, in 1797, at the end of a decade of political turmoil and violence occasioned by the French Revolution and the increasingly repressive British response both to events across the Channel and to dissent at home. Radcliffe's Gothic tale participates in a strategy whereby British Gothic writers situate their novels at a discreet distance (spatially and/or temporally) from current events while at the same time commenting upon political and familial questions sparked by the Revolutionary decade. In The Italian a poor but independent heroine is abducted by the Marchesa Vivaldi, the mother of the wealthy nobleman with ...
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