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THE
ABBESS: A ROMANCE.
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William-Henry
Ireland (1777-1835)
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Price: TBD
PRODUCT
INFORMATION:
Availability:
May 2006
Format:
Perfect Bound, pp. TBD
Original
Publication: 1799
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ABOUT THE BOOK:
Fleshy
and diabolical, The Abbess features the first lady of
the garish, the seducer-superior Mother Vittoria Bracciano,
the feminine counterpart of Lewis's Ambrosio. In
William-Henry Ireland's first and most sexually charged
Gothic novel evil hides not only in the darkness, but behind
the religious veil.
ABOUT THE EDITOR:
Jeffrey
Kahan completed his Ph.D. on W. H. Ireland’s
“Shakespeare Papers” at the Shakespeare Institute,
University of Birmingham, in 1993.
He is author of the Ireland study, Reforging
Shakespeare (1998), and has edited Ireland’s Vortigern
and Henry II
as part of his multivolume set Shakespeare
Imitations, Parodies and Forgeries, 1710- 1820 (2004).
Prof. Kahan is also editor of The
Poetry of William-Henry Ireland (2004).
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