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This chapter focuses on the translation, reception and legacy of the Mysteries of Udolpho across the Channel during and after the French Revolution. It argues that Ann Radcliffe’s name became the means by which a number of writers earned their living, turning to translations, imitations and forgeries of the novelist’s characteristic gothic style. It also explains how translating Ann Radcliffe in French served as a means of addressing topical French political concerns behind a façade of Englishness. In the process, this chapter demonstrates that, though political relations between France and Britain were troubled, literary exchanges between the two nations never ceased.
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Lacôte, F. (2021). Ann Radcliffe and the French Revolution. In: Bloom, C. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Gothic Origins. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84562-9_7
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