Body Politics In Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries Of Udolpho And The Italian

• Autorzy: Agnieszka Łowczanin

Abstrakty

EN

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the way in which Ann Radcliffe manages to register shifts in the ontology of the self and the other which were taking place in the late eighteenth century. Acknowledging the ambivalences of the semiotics of the body, especially in The Mysteries of Udolpho and The Italian, allows her to toy with the notion of the body as character correlate, and orchestrate the problematics of the union between a character and his or her corporeal designation and perception by others. The paper demonstrates how grappling with the dynamics informed by the Cartesian opposition of substance and essence in turn allows for subscribing to the paradigmatic gothic atmosphere, but also foreshadows the contemporary post-Cartesian phenomenological understanding of the body, and introduces a truly modern psychologised and internalised eschatology and “spectralisation of the other.”

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Ann Radcliffe; body; character; perception; death

• Wydawca: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Czasopismo: Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny
• Rocznik: 2015
• Numer: 4
• Strony: 691-702

Daty

wydano

2015

Twórcy

autor

Agnieszka Łowczanin

Identyfikatory

Biblioteka Nauki

2076061