Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Schmitt, Cannon

Titel

Paranoia and the Englishwoman: Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian

Ist Teil von

• Alien Nation, 2018, p.21-45

Ort / Verlag

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

De Gruyter eBooks

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The place of nationality in Ann Radcliffe’sThe Italian(1797) appears obvious: the text promises to reveal the secrets of an alien national identity to English readers. The novel’s very title makes this promise, as does the much-admired frame tale that introduces the narrative proper. Anna Letitia Barbauld, in her introduction to Radcliffe's novels inThe British Novelists(1810), writes of this frame: Nothing can be finer than the opening of this story. An Englishman on his travels, walking through a church, sees a dark figure stealing along the aisles. He is informed that he is an assassin. On expressing