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100 1 $aRadcliffe, Ann Ward,$d1764-1823.
245 14$aThe Italian, or, The confessional of the Black Penitents :$ba romance /$cAnn Radcliffe ; edited by Frederick Garber ; revised and with an introduction and notes by Nick Groom.
246 30$aConfessional of the Black Penitents :$ba romance
260 $aOxford, United Kingdom :$bOxford University Press,$cc2017.
300 $alv, 424 p. ;$c20 cm.
490 1 $aOxford world's classics
500 $aNovel originally published in 1797.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. xlii-xlvi).
505 0 $aAcknowledgements -- Introduction -- Note on the Text -- Select Bibliography -- A Chronology of Ann Radcliffe. THE ITALIAN. Appendix 1: On the Supernatural in Poetry -- Appendix 2: Letter from Ann Radcliffe to her Mother-in-Law -- Explanatory Notes.
520 $aFather Schedoni is enlisted by the imperious Marchesa di Vivaldi to prevent her son from marrying the beautiful Ellena. Schedoni has no scruples in kidnapping Ellena and in undertaking whatever villainy will further his own ends. His menacing presence dominates a gripping tale of love and betrayal, abduction and assassination, and incarceration in the dreadful dungeons of the Inquisition. Uncertainty and doubt lie everywhere, in Radcliffe's last and most unnerving novel. Ann Radcliffe defined the "terror" genre of writing and helped to establish the Gothic novel, thrilling readers with her mysterious plots and eerie effects. In The Italian she rejects the rational certainties of the Enlightenment for a more ambiguous and unsettling account of what it is to be an individual - particularly a woman - in a culture haunted by history and dominated by institutional power. This new edition includes Radcliffe's important essay "On the Supernatural in Poetry," in which she distinguishes terror writing from horror. -- Amazon.com
650 0$aAbduction$zItaly$vFiction.
650 0$aGothic fiction (Literary genre), English.
650 0$aInquisition$zItaly$vFiction.
650 0$aMonks$zItaly$vFiction.
700 1 $aGarber, Frederick.
700 1 $aGroom, Nick,$d1966-
830 0$aOxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)