A Sicilian Romance

In A Sicilian Romance (1790) Radcliffe started to forge the distinctive combination of the psychology of terror and poetic description that might make her the nice exemplar of the Gothic nove, and the idol of the Romantics.

This early novel explores the cavernous landscapes and labyrinthine passages of Sicily’s castles and covents to disclose the shameful secrets and techniques of its omnipotent aristocracy. Julia and Emilia Mazzini reside secluded in an historical mansion close to the Straits of Messina. After their father’s return to the island a uncared for a part of the home is haunted by a sequence of mysterious sights and sounds. The origin of those hauntings is simply found after a sequence of breathless pursuits by means of dreamlike
pastoral landscapes. When revelation lastly comes, it forces the heroines to problem the united forces of spiritual and patriarchal authority.
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