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Criticism

Anderson, Howard. "Gothic Heroes." In The English Hero, 1660–1800, edited by Robert Folkenflik, pp. 205-21. Newark, Del. and London: University of Delaware Press and Associated University Press, 1982.

Analyzes the male characters in The Mysteries of Udolpho and measures their complexity and traits versus the men in such works as Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, Matthew G. Lewis's The Monk, and Radcliffe's The Italian.

Castle, Terry. "The Spectralization of the Other in The Mysteries of Udolpho." In The New Eighteenth Century: Theory, Politics, English Literature, edited by Felicity Nussbaum and Laura Brown, pp. 231-53. New York: Methuen, 1987.

Points out that although critics of The Mysteries of Udolpho usually focus on the Gothic episodes of the novel that occur at the castle, the events in the other...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Primary Sources
   1. Ann Radcliffe (Novel Date 1794)
   2. Ann Radcliffe (Essay Date 1826)
4. General Commentary
   1. David S. Miall (Essay Date 2000)
5. Title Commentary
   1. The Mysteries of Udolpho
   2. Anne Williams (Essay Date 1995)
6. Further Reading