Smith, A. (2015) Radcliffe's Aesthetics: Or, The Problem With Burke And Lewis. Women's Writing, 22 (3). 317 - 330. ISSN 0969-9082
Abstract
How and why does Ann Radcliffe develop a Gothic aesthetic and then revise it? This article argues that the self-conscious Gothic constructions of The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) are concealed in The Italian (1797). After Matthew Lewis's The Monk (1796) had parodied Radcliffe's Gothic techniques, she revises her earlier engagement with Edmund Burke in order to move beyond his claim that Terror can be rhetorically produced. Such issues have ramifications for an understanding of gender as these aesthetic concerns become staged in a debate, between Radcliffe and Lewis, centred on the representation of holy mothers. This article thus explores how a Gothic aesthetic was negotiated at the end of the eighteenth century.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2015 Taylor & Francis. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Women's Writing. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Women's Writing on 27 Jul 2015, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09699082.2015.1037983. |
Keywords: | sublime; aesthetics; Terror; Burke; art; mothers |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > School of English (Sheffield) > Department of English Literature (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 05 Oct 2015 14:55 |
Last Modified: | 14 Apr 2017 04:06 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2015.1037983 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/09699082.2015.1037983 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:90518 |