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Ann Radcliffe

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Introduction

  • Ann Radcliffe was a popular English novelist in the late eighteenth century. She is credited with developing the Gothic novel and establishing its status as a “respectable” genre. Radcliffe employed standard Gothic tropes; however, she utilized these conventions in an innovative manner. Moreover, while she incorporated supernatural occurrences to build suspense, she would provide a logical explanation for such eve…

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The Academic Novel

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  • The academic novel is also known as the university or varsity novel. It is a novel that takes place in academic settings and revolves around academic professionals. These academics belong to the English department. The academic novel explores the possibilities which occur when distinctive personalities are placed in a closed, insulated environment such as the university campus. Many academic novels are satirical in tone, and depict idealistic, impractical thinkers who are isolated from the real world. The tradition of satirizing idealistic thinkers is one which dates to ancient times. In Aristophanes՚ comedy Clouds, the philosopher Socrat…

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