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THE ABBESS: A ROMANCE.
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William-Henry Ireland (1777-1835)
Our 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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