A Sicilian Romance
Pages: 256
|Published: 1 Jan 1790
Description
In A Sicilian Romance (1790) Ann Radcliffe began to forge the unique mixture of the psychology of terror and poetic description that would make her the great exemplar of the Gothic novel, and the idol of the Romantics. This early novel explores the cavernous landscapes and labyrinthine
passages of Sicily's castles and convents to reveal the shameful secrets of its all-powerful aristocracy.
passages of Sicily's castles and convents to reveal the shameful secrets of its all-powerful aristocracy.
