The Romance of the Forest - Softcover

Radcliffe, Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 155481538X ISBN 13: 9781554815388

Publisher: Broadview Press, 2023

Synopsis

Adeline, the protagonist of Ann Radcliffe’s The Romance of the Forest, became a model for later Gothic heroines. Passionate, imaginative, and sensitive, in the course of the novel she travels rapidly through the forests and Gothic ruins of France, pursued by the villain de Montfort and perpetually threatened by what appear to be supernatural events. The publication of The Romance of the Forest in 1791 had a significant impact on Radcliffe’s career and on the rise of what would be known as the Gothic novel. The novel was widely praised upon publication and became a measure of quality against which all her future novels were gauged. Along with critical praise, The Romance of the Forest found an enthusiastic general audience and opened the new genre of Gothic Romance to a wider range of readers.

The extensive historical appendices provide material on the novel’s contemporary reception, the Gothic novel, sensibility and sentiment, and the aesthetics of the sublime and picturesque.

About this title

About the Author

Shelley King is Professor Emerita of English at Queen’s University. John B. Pierce is Professor of English at Queen’s University. They are the editors of the Broadview Editions of Amelia Opie’s The Father and Daughter and The Dangers of Coquetry and of George McDonald’s The Princess and the Goblin and Other Fairy Tales.

From the Back Cover

Adeline, the protagonist of Ann Radcliffe’s The Romance of the Forest, became a model for later Gothic heroines. Passionate, imaginative, and sensitive, in the course of the novel she travels rapidly through the forests and Gothic ruins of France, pursued by the villain de Montfort and perpetually threatened by what appear to be supernatural events. The publication of The Romance of the Forest in 1791 had a significant impact on Radcliffe’s career and on the rise of what would be known as the Gothic novel. The novel was widely praised upon publication and became a measure of quality against which all her future novels were gauged. Along with critical praise, The Romance of the Forest found an enthusiastic general audience and opened the new genre of Gothic Romance to a wider range of readers.

The extensive historical appendices provide material on the novel’s contemporary reception, the Gothic novel, sensibility and sentiment, and the aesthetics of the sublime and picturesque.

Edition details

• Publisher: Broadview Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 155481538X
• ISBN 13: 9781554815388
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 426
• Editor: King Shelley, Pierce John B.