#ladybedivere

Well, I’ve only read about half of her books so far, so I can’t give you as complete an answer as I might like. All of her books are paced more slowly than most gothic novels, and I think she introduces characters in a way that, while extremely interesting to me, isn’t actually very immediately accessible. That said, I think one of the two or three-volume novels, like The Italian or A Sicilian Romance, would be easier to start with than the four-volume Udolpho. Sicilian Romance has some engaging familial dynamics and a lot of appealing solidarity among the female characters; The Italian, as a response to The Monk, is really generically interesting.

ladybedivere said: I haven’t actually read any Radcliffe (I know, I know) but I did start reading The Monk a while back and I don’t get how anyone would believe that’s a less “absurd” contribution to the genre except that they knew the authors’ genders.

To be fair, I think there are several things about The Monk which have led to it being given more critical respect than Radcliffe’s work and, while all of those are gendered, they are not straightforwardly so. The Monk is often seen to be, on some level, parodic, and explosion of gothic generic conventions and gender roles, and modern people are often more tolerant of ‘excess’ when they think there’s an element of parody involved. But that parodic mode is more readily open to male authors, largely because, I think, it involves a distancing of oneself from the reality of the threats typical to the genre.

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