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dc.title	The Supernatural Subject of the Sublime in Burke and Radcliffe: A Reading of The Mysteries of Udolpho
dc.contributor.author	Watson Zak
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/english-literature/2020/1/the-supernatural-subject-of-the-sublime-in-burke-a/
dc.description.abstract	The article aims to explore how the supernatural is represented in Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794), arguing that it reflects Radcliffe’s ideas on the matter, described in her theoretical work On the Supernatural in Poetry (1826). Following Walter Scott’s representation of Radcliffe in his work Lives of the Novelists (1825), her works have been associated with the concept of the explained supernatural. The articles argues that the supernatural present in The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) complicates the subjective safety implied by the explained supernatural, a complication visible in the novel’s narrative closure.
dc.relation.ispartof	English Literature
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 7 \| December 2020
dc.issued	2020-12-21
dc.dateAccepted	2020-12-12
dc.dateSubmitted	2020-09-30
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2420-823X
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/EL/2420-823X/2020/01/002
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Ann Radcliffe
dc.subject	Ann Radcliffe
dc.subject	Edmund Burke
dc.subject	Edmund Burke
dc.subject	Empiricism
dc.subject	Empiricism
dc.subject	Gothic novel
dc.subject	Gothic novel
dc.subject	Narrative
dc.subject	Narrative
dc.subject	Supernatural
dc.subject	Supernatural
dc.subject	The Mysteries of Udolpho
dc.subject	The Mysteries of Udolpho
dc.subject	The Sublime
dc.subject	The Sublime

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The Supernatural Subject of the Sublime in Burke and Radcliffe: A Reading of The Mysteries of Udolpho

Zak Watson Missouri Southern State University, USA

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abstract

The article aims to explore how the supernatural is represented in Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794), arguing that it reflects Radcliffe’s ideas on the matter, described in her theoretical work On the Supernatural in Poetry (1826). Following Walter Scott’s representation of Radcliffe in his work Lives of the Novelists (1825), her works have been associated with the concept of the explained supernatural. The articles argues that the supernatural present in The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) complicates the subjective safety implied by the explained supernatural, a complication visible in the novel’s narrative closure.

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Dec. 21, 2020

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Dec. 12, 2020

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Sept. 30, 2020

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Keywords: Narrative • The Mysteries of Udolpho • Supernatural • The Sublime • Ann Radcliffe • Empiricism • Edmund Burke • Gothic novel

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