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Podcast for the AHRC-sponsored Ann Radcliffe, Then and Now project. Interviews with experts to answer the question: why is 1790s Gothic trailblazer, Ann Radcliffe, relevant today?
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Women in White and the New Gothic Cinema: Reinventing the Gothic Heroine | A lecture by Professor Catherine Spooner (opens the original)
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There has been a revival of interest in the Gothic heroine in the twenty-first century, in big budget films such as Crimson Peak , Poor Things , Nosferatu , Frankenstein and Wuthering Heights . This talk traces the history of the Gothic heroine back to the eighteenth-century novels of Ann Radcliffe, the highest paid author of her day. Paying particular attention to costume and the iconic image of the woman in white running from a dark house, Professor Catherine Spooner explores the ways in which
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