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- adjective Alternative spelling of
Radcliffian .
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Examples
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Loutherbourg, into a Radcliffean extravaganza in which the dead would live again, projected mid-air by magic lanterns through a haze of smoke in the tombs of the
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As argued above, though, the distinctions between vision and auditory perception also inform the aesthetic divide between Gothic and Romantic, prose romance and high poetic form, to the extent that the broader distinctions between Gothic and Romantic replicate themselves within Gothic writing itself, rendering fictions of the Radcliffean school closer to the aims and objectives of the Romantic literati.
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Gothic convention of multiple narratives and narrators used here is linked, especially in Shelley's obscuring of the desired and haunting mother, with the Radcliffean Gothic premise of the unexplained supernatural.
'Mummy, possest': Sadism and Sensibility in Shelley's _Frankenstein_ 2003
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Radcliffean -- in this latter section of the XIXth century, he would hardly, I should hope, have condemned English students and
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Here, my love, if you like description, "continued her ladyship, opening one of the letters," here is a Radcliffean tour along the picturesque coasts of Dorset and Devonshire.
Tales and Novels — Volume 03 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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Here, my love, if you like description, 'continued her ladyship, opening one of the letters,' here is a Radcliffean tour along the picturesque coasts of Dorset and Devonshire.
Belinda 1801
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