Book Review of A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffe
Name of Book: A Sicilian Romance Author: Ann Radcliffe ISBN: http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/ Publisher: http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/ Type of book: Gothic novel, late 1500s, young adult to adult, Year it was published: 1790 Summary: 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. (Goodreads) Characters: The characters seem to be one dimensional; they're either purely evil or purely virtuous and somewhat similar to either Cinderella or Mary Sue archetypes. (Women are hated and despised by their father and step mother and don't know anything of society but in the end gain whatever they desire.) I don't think ...