SOURCE: "'Kidnapped Romance' in Ann Radcliffe," in The Contested Castle: Gothic Novels and the Subversion of Domestic Ideology, University of Illinois Press, 1989, pp. 99-128.
In the following excerpt, Ellis suggests that in her Gothic novels Radcliffe elevates the character of romance by using the fanciful conventions of the Gothic tradition as a means of addressing the real problems encountered by a young lady or gentleman entering the world in the eighteenth century.
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