First published in , "The Italian" is a classic example of Gothic romance. The fast-paced narrative centres on Ann Radcliffe's sinister creation, the monk Schedoni, whose past is shrouded in mystery. From the novel's opening chapters the reader is ushered into . The Italian - Ann Radcliffe. The passage understudy is situated at the middle of the novel. It precedes the climax of the romance as it unravels the malicious plot of the murder of the heroine. Indeed, in this extract, Schedoni tells the marchesa a false piece of news: Vivaldi got married to Ellena di Rosalba. The Italian (Paperback) Published May 1st by Oxford University Press, USA. Paperback, pages. Author (s): Ann Radcliffe, Nick Groom (Editor) .
Ann Radcliffe wrote The Italian as an act of protest and self-vindication after reading Matthew Gregory Lewis's novel The Monk (which, according to Lewis, was itself inspired by Radcliffe's earlier novel The Mysteries of Udolpho). Radcliffe was following in the tradition established by Horace Walpole's highly successful Gothic novel. Professor Nick Groom, editor of the Oxford World's Classics edition of, "The Italian", discusses Ann Radcliffe's last novel and where it fits in with the Go. The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents. A Romance. Ann Radcliffe.
The Italian, in full The Italian; or, The Confessional of the Black Penitents: A Romance, novel by Ann Radcliffe, published in three volumes in A notable example of Gothic literature, the novel’s great strength is its depiction of the villain, the sinister monk Schedoni. Complete summary of Ann Ward's The Italian. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Italian. Search this site Go Ask a by Ann Radcliffe. Repulsed and inspired by Matthew Gregory Lewis’s graphic gothic novel, The Monk, Anne Radcliffe’s The Italian is a complexly plotted Romance (the term was derogatory then, although what they meant by a Romance then is not what we would derogatorily dismiss as a Romance now) about two chaste and naïve teens who fall madly in love with each other at first glance but then have their parade rained on by the boy’s mean-spirited mother and her minion, Schedoni, the conniving and ghoulish.
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