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The Italian (1797) is a gripping tale of love and betrayal, abduction and assassination, and incarceration by the Inquisition. Radcliffe's last and most unnerving novel exemplifies her definition of 'terror' writing, combining Romantic and Gothic...
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The Italian (1797) is a gripping tale of love and betrayal, abduction and assassination, and incarceration by the Inquisition. Radcliffe's last and most unnerving novel exemplifies her definition of 'terror' writing, combining Romantic and Gothic elements and influencing countless later writers. Cover -- The Italian or The Confessional of the Black Penitents A Romance -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Life and Writings -- Sublime Landscape, Sublime Terror -- Church and State -- The Italian and the Italian, Schedoni -- The End -- Note on the Text -- Select Bibliography -- Life and Writings -- Gothic Contexts -- Theology and Society -- Female Gothic -- Shakespeare -- Further Reading: Oxford World's Classics -- A Chronology of Ann Radcliffe -- The Italian: or the Confessional of the Black Penitents. A Romance -- THE ITALIAN or THE CONFESSIONAL OF THE BLACK PENITENTS* -- VOLUME I -- CHAPTER I -- CHAPTER II -- CHAPTER III -- CHAPTER IV -- CHAPTER V -- CHAPTER VI -- CHAPTER VII -- CHAPTER VIII -- CHAPTER IX -- CHAPTER X -- CHAPTER XI -- VOLUME II -- CHAPTER I -- CHAPTER II -- CHAPTER III -- CHAPTER IV -- CHAPTER V -- CHAPTER VI -- CHAPTER VII -- CHAPTER VIII -- CHAPTER IX -- CHAPTER X -- VOLUME III -- CHAPTER I -- CHAPTER II -- CHAPTER III -- CHAPTER IV -- CHAPTER V -- CHAPTER VI -- CHAPTER VII -- CHAPTER VIII -- CHAPTER IX -- CHAPTER X -- CHAPTER XI -- CHAPTER XII* -- CHAPTER XIII -- APPENDIX I: ON THE SUPERNATURAL IN POETRY -- APPENDIX II: LETTER FROM ANN RADCLIFFE TO HER MOTHER-IN-LAW -- Explanatory Notes -- Title Page of the First Edition -- The Italian -- Appendix I -- More About OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS: The Oxford World's Classics Website -- More About OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS -- A SELECTION OF OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS -- A SELECTION OF OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS -- A SELECTION OF OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS -- A SELECTION OF OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS -- A SELECTION OF OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS -- A SELECTION OF OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS.
First published in 1797, The Italian, with its archetypal villain Schedoni, its intense romance and its sublime depiction of landscape, is the masterpiece of Gothic fiction "Contents" -- "The Italian" -- "Note on the Text" -- "Notes
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First published in 1797, The Italian, with its archetypal villain Schedoni, its intense romance and its sublime depiction of landscape, is the masterpiece of Gothic fiction "Contents" -- "The Italian" -- "Note on the Text" -- "Notes