Influences on AR
's writings include the opera, contemporary travel writers, and Joseph Priestley
's Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism, 1777.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press.
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AR
probably helped to produce the fashion for literary quotation...
Literary responses
Susanna Haswell Rowson
Early, informal response centred on the play's daring political message, which made SHR
famous or notorious. People spoke of the play as Americans in Algiers or Slaves Released from Algiers.
Montgomery, Benilde. “<span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Slaves in Algiers</span>: Susanna Rowson’s First American Play”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.
MAS
adds a new aesthetic category, the contemplative sublime, alongside the Burke
an or terrible sublime and other categories related to the Burkean beautiful. She derives her thinking from women as well as men. In...