Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Ann Radcliffe: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text The Romance of the Forest
Appendix A: Contemporary Reviews - 1. From The Critical Review, or, Annals of Literature (April 1792)
- 2. From Monthly Review, or, Literary Journal (May 1792)
- 3. The Town and Country Magazine (June 1792)
- 4. The Scots Magazine (June 1792)
- 5. From English Review (November 1792)
Appendix B: The Romance, the Novel, and the Gothic - 1. From William Congreve, “The Preface to the Reader,” Incognita; or, Love and Duty Reconciled: A Novel (1692)
- 2. From Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, no. 4 (31 March 1750)
- 3. From Horace Walpole, Preface, The Castle of Otranto, 2nd ed. (1765)
- 4. From Clara Reeve, The Progress of Romance (1785)
- 5. Anonymous, “Terrorist Novel Writing,” The Spirit of the Public Journals (1797)
Appendix C: The Aesthetics of the Sublime and the Picturesque - 1. From Longinus, Dionysius Longinus on the Sublime (first century CE)
- 2. From John Dennis, The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry (1704)
- 3. From Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757)
- 4. From Anna Laetitia Aikin (later Barbauld) and John Aikin, “On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror,” Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose (1773)
- 5. From William Gilpin, Three Essays: On Picturesque Beauty; on Picturesque Travel; and On Sketching Landscape (1792)
- 6. From Ann Radcliffe, “On the Supernatural in Poetry,” The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal (1826)
Appendix D: Sensibility and the Sentimental - 1. From Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
- 2. From Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey (1768)
- 3. Helen Maria Williams, “To Sensibility” (1786)
- 4. From Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary, a Fiction (1788)
- 5. From Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
Works Cited and Recommended Reading
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