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From: Studies in the Novel
Date: 20060622
Author:Chandler, Anne

Even within a critical climate largely sympathetic to its aspirations, the eighteenth-century Gothic is still perceived as fluctuating between peaks of rhetorical hyperactivity and valleys of intellectual torpor--almost as if a Radcliffean villain and heroine, each more caricatured than anything actually seen in Radcliffe, were alternately in control. When we do think of Gothic authors themselves as being in control, we have practical motives for deemphasizing their personal claims: even where biographical concerns are clearly present, the novels are often more convincing as ...

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