Ann Radcliffe

Japanese: ラドクリフ - らどくりふ(英語表記)Ann Radcliffe
Ann Radcliffe

British female novelist. Born in London in the same year that Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, the pioneer of Gothic novels, was published, she herself wrote representative Gothic novels, The Mystery of Udolpho (1794) and The Italian (1797, translated into Japanese as The Tragedy of Italy). She excelled in her descriptions of the exotic, awe-inspiring landscapes of France and Italy, as well as her delicate sensibility, and gained popularity for her bizarre plots. Unlike Walpole, she did not have a penchant for the supernatural, and her works are characterized by their rational explanations of the bizarre. She had a major influence on Scott, Austen, and others.

[Akira Sano]

"Nobata Taeko's translation of "The Tragedy of Italy" Volumes 1 and 2 (1978, Kokusho Kankokai)"

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

イギリスの女流小説家。ゴシック小説の嚆矢(こうし)であるウォルポールの『オトラント城』出版の年にロンドンに生まれ、自身もゴシック小説の代表『ユードルフォの怪奇』(1794)、『イタリア人』(1797。邦訳名『イタリアの惨劇』)を書いた。フランス、イタリアの異郷的な畏怖(いふ)に満ちた風景と、繊細な感受性の描写に優れ、怪奇な筋立てで人気を博した。ウォルポールのような超自然好みはなく、怪奇も合理的に説き明かされるのが特徴。スコット、オースティンなどへの影響が大きかった。

[佐野 晃]

『野畑多恵子訳『イタリアの惨劇』上下(1978・国書刊行会)』

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