NovelGothic · 1794Study guide · no full textSteady

The Mysteries of Udolpho

Radcliffe invents the explained supernatural: the dread is real, the cause is usually mundane, and the reader is complicit in wanting the ghost.

Gothic Horror Gender Desire

Study guide

This work is still in copyright, so there is no full text on the page. What you get instead: the context, the cast, the ideas and the themes — enough to read it well, and to know exactly what to watch for in the first thirty pages.

The cast, in the Character Atlas →Literary devices →Where it sits in time →

Now read the first page with all of this in mind.

The notes here are the map; the book is the journey.

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