The Italian

Ann Radcliffe, Nick Groom (University of Exeter)

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Worlds Classics
06 April 2017

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Historical fiction; Religious & spiritual fiction

Series: Oxford World's Classics

'Among his associates no one loved him, many disliked him, and more feared him.'

Father 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.

By: Ann Radcliffe
Edited by: Nick Groom (University of Exeter)
Imprint: Worlds Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 195mm, Width: 147mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 346g
ISBN: 9780198704430
ISBN 10: 0198704437
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Pages: 560
Publication Date: 06 April 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Note on the Text Select Bibliography Chronology The Italian Explanatory Notes

Nick Groom has published widely for both academic and popular readerships, with particular interest in questions of authenticity and the emergence of national and regional identity. His books include The Gothic (2012) for the Very Short Introductions series, The Union Jack: the Story of the British Flag (Atlantic, 2006), and The Seasons: an Elegy for the Passing of the Year (Atlantic, 2013). For Oxford World's Classics he has edited Walpole's The Castle of Otranto and Matthew Lewis's The Monk.