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John Moore, Ann Radcliffe and the Gothic Vision of Italy

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From: Gothic Studies
Date: 20060501
Author:Perkins, Pam

Ann Radcliffe never visited Italy; she didn't need to. The contemporary popularity of travel writing as a genre and Italy as a destination ensured that any poorlytravelled novelists writing in the last quarter of the eighteenth century would have had no difficulty in creating enthusiastic and memorable descriptions of such standard tourist sights as the Bay of Naples or the canals of Venice.1 From Joseph Addison at the beginning of the century to the Scottish doctor and novelist John Moore at the end, numerous literary Britons published accounts of their tours in Italy, making the landscape ...

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