Joan Passey

Issue: 1

Volume: 1

Page Numbers: 36-44

Publication Date: 2017

Publication Name: Question

Research Interests:
Victorian Literature

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Literature, Gothic Literature, Gothic Studies, Gothic Fiction and the horror film, Short story (Literature), and 7 moreGothic Fiction, Short story, Gothic, Georgian Studies, The Short Story, Introduction, and Short Story Analysis

Research Interests:
Victorian Studies, Victorian Literature, Gothic Literature, Gothic Studies, Victorian cultural studies, and 5 moreGothic Fiction and the horror film, Gothic Fiction, Wilkie Collins, Gothic, and Wilkie Collins as first creator of historical thrillers

Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic novels are rich with visual imagery, but their use of sound is largely overlooked. While there is significant research into eighteenth century music, little has been said about Radcliffe’s use of atmospheric sound.... more

Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic novels are rich with visual imagery, but their use of sound is largely overlooked. While there is significant research into eighteenth century music, little has been said about Radcliffe’s use of atmospheric sound. This article proposes that Radcliffe uses sound to generate terror in response to eighteenth century concepts of sensibility and permeability of the self. In Radcliffe’s novels sound has an obscurity image does not, and penetrates the body, representative of larger anxieties over the degeneration of society.

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Women's Studies, Women's History, Eighteenth-Century literature, Eighteenth Century History, Enlightenment, and 19 moreEdmund Burke, Sound studies, Eighteenth-Century British History and Culture, Sound, Gothic Literature, Gothic Studies, Intellectual History of Enlightenment, Gothic Fiction and the horror film, Gothic Fiction, Eighteenth-Century Music, Women and Culture, Sonic Studies, Women and Gender Studies, Female Gothic, Ann Radcliffe, Gothic, Political Thought of Edmund Burke, Eighteenth Century Gothic Fiction Ann Radcliffe, and The Italian Ann Radcliffe

Research Interests:
Book History, Bibliography, Eighteenth Century History, Eighteenth-Century British History and Culture, Nineteenth Century British History and Culture, and 5 moreLibraries, Letters, Bibliomania, Book Collecting, and Jane Eyre