In A Sicilian Romance (1790) Radcliffe began to forge the unique mixture of the psychology of terror and poetic description that would make her the great exemplar of the Gothic nove, and the idol of t ... Read more
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Elizabeth Inchbald; J. M. S. Tompkins; Jane Spencer
Pages
384 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
129 x 195 mm
Pub date
May 2009
Series
Oxford World's Classics
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