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The Italian (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)
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The Italian (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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'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.
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