BIOGRAPHY

Murray, E. B. Ann Radcliffe. New York, N.Y.: Twayne Publishers, 1972, 178 p.

Overviews Radcliffe's life and major works, and evaluates her influence upon the literary world.

CRITICISM

Arnold, Ellen. “Deconstructing the Patriarchal Palace: Ann Radcliffe's Poetry in The Mysteries of Udolpho.” Women and Language 19, No. 2 (Fall 1996): 21-29.

Analyzes the verses written by Radcliffe for The Mysteries of Udolpho.

Benedict, Barbara M. “Pictures of Conformity: Sentiment and Structure in Ann Radcliffe's Style.” Philological Quarterly 68, No. 3 (Summer 1989): 363-77.

Argues that Radcliffe's narrative style and plot structure emphasize the importance of the characters perceiving the world in a correct and moral manner.

Bernstein, Stephen. “Form and Ideology in the Gothic Novel.” Essays in Literature 18, No. 2 (Fall 1991): 151-65.

Studies the plot structures and thematic concerns of various gothic novels, from The Castle of Otranto to Melmoth the Wanderer.

Christensen, Merton A. “Udolpho, Horrid Mysteries, and Coleridge's Machinery of the Imagination,” in Wordsworth Circle 2, No. 4 (Autumn 1971): 153-59.

Notes that the ideals of the imagination are similar in both gothic novels and the poetry of Coleridge, but that the expression of these ideals is somewhat muddied by the literary devices employed in the gothic.

Cottom, Daniel. “The Figure in the Landscape,” in his The Civilized Imagination: A Study of Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen, and Sir Walter Scott. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Discusses the importance of landscape in Radcliffe's writing.

Drew, Lorna. “The Emily Connection: Ann Radcliffe, L. M. Montgomery and ‘The Female Gothic,”’ in Canadian Children's Literature 77, No21:1 (Spring 1995): 19-32.

Traces the similarities in the female characters' personal journeys in Radcliffe and Montgomery's novels.

Fleenor, Julian E., ed. The Female Gothic. London: Eden Press, 1983. 311 p.

Collection of essays studying gothic novels that is organized by themes, including mystique, madness, sexuality and terror, and maternity.

Holland, Norman N., and Leona F. Sherman. “Gothic Possibilities,” in Gender and Reading: Essays on Readers, Texts, and Contexts, edited by Elizabeth A. Flynn and Patrocinio P. Schweickart. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. 306 p.

Examines the criteria that makes a novel fall into the “gothic” genre, finding that it is more than surface elements, such as foreboding castles, that classify a gothic novel.

Howells, Coral Ann. “The Pleasure of the Woman's Text: Ann Radcliffe's Subtle Transgressions in The Mysteries of Udolpho and The Italian.” In Gothic Fictions: Prohibition/Transgression, edited by Kenneth W. Graham, pp. 151-61. New York: AMS Press, 1989.

Maintains that when the reader exaomines particular passages in Udolpho and The Italian that don't fit the rest of the narratives well, a pattern evolves involving transgressions and the appropriateness of women's feelings.

Kostelnick, Charles. “From Picturesque View to Picturesque Vision: William Gilpin and Ann Radcliffe,” in Mosaic 18, No. 3 (Summer 1985): 31-48.

Consideration of the importance of landscapes and nature in Radcliffe's novel and William Gilpin's essays on travel.

Schroeder, Natalie. “The Mysteries of Udolpho and Clermont: The Radcliffean Encroachment on the Art of Regina Maria Roche,” in Studies in the Novel 12, No. 2 (Summer 1980): 131-43.

Examines how Radcliffe's popular novel overshadowed that of Roche's.

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofski, “The Character in the Veil: Imagery of the Surface in the Gothic Novel,” in PMLA [Publications of the Modern Language Association] 96, No. 2 (March 1981): 255-70.

Examines the imagery in Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and The Italian, and M. G. Lewis's The Monk.

Winter, K. J. “Sexual/Textual Politics of Terror: Writing and Rewriting the Gothic Genre in the 1790s,” in Misogyny in Literature: An Essay Collection, edited by Katherine Anne Ackley. New York: Garland Publishing, 1992. 393 p.

Discusses the violence against women in many of the gothic novels of the late eighteenth century.

Additional coverage of Radcliffe's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 39 and 178.