Behind a Mask; or, A Woman's Power | Literary Precedents
Behind a Mask has specific ties to Gothic literary tradition. Alcott read and admired the Gothic novels of the eighteenth-century authors Ann Radcliffe, Monk Lewis, and Charles Brockden Brown, all of whom wrote under the influence of Horace Walpole, whose The Castle of Otranto (1764) launched the Gothic tradition. Radcliffe's popular The Mysteries of Udolpho, published in 1794, featured elements of intrigue and horror. Her The Italian of two years later depicted a romantic villain who repelled, yet attracted the reader at the same time.
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