A Journey Made in the Summer of 1794 (Vol. 1&2)
A Picturesque Journey Through Holland, Germany, the Rhine, and the English Lake DistrictBy Ann Radcliffe
Length14h 46m
About this audiobook
In A Journey Made in the Summer of 1794, Ann Radcliffe turns from the invented terrors of her Gothic novels to the observed landscapes, cities, ruins, and social customs of continental Europe. Across two volumes, her route through the Netherlands, Germany, and related territories becomes both a travel narrative and an inquiry into how scenery produces feeling. Radcliffe's celebrated sensitivity to mountains, rivers, castles, and sublime vistas remains evident, yet her descriptions are tempered by antiquarian curiosity, historical reflection, and attention to political and religious difference. Written in the late-eighteenth-century tradition of picturesque travel, the work also reveals how Gothic imagination could emerge from direct encounters with real places rather than from purely fictional invention. Radcliffe (1764–1823) was one of the most influential English novelists of the Gothic revival, best known for The Mysteries of Udolpho and The Italian. Her extensive reading, interest in European history, and fascination with landscape informed the atmospheric techniques of her fiction; this journey offered her an opportunity to test those sensibilities against travel and observation. Composed in the unsettled political climate of the 1790s, the book reflects a cultivated traveler's awareness of national character, cultural memory, and the tensions between admiration and critique. This richly descriptive work will reward readers interested in Gothic literature, Romantic-era travel writing, landscape aesthetics, and women's intellectual history. It is particularly valuable for seeing Radcliffe not merely as a spinner of supernatural suspense, but as a serious observer whose prose joins empirical detail to imaginative interpretation. Readers familiar with her novels will discover the experiential and intellectual foundations of her distinctive art.
Audiobook details
GenreTravel
Length14 hrs 46 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 1, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A Midsummer Night's Dream (The Unabridged Play) + The Classic Biography (Annotated)
26MENTZ
2A Journey Made in the Summer of 1794 (Vol. 1&2)
27OF MENTZ IN 1792 AND 1793
3VOLUME 1
28MENTZ
4HELVOETSLUYS
29FRANCKFORT
5ROTTERDAM
30OPPENHEIM
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6DELFT
31WORMS
7THE HAGUE
32FRANCKENTHAL
8LEYDEN
33OGGERSHEIM
9HAERLEM
34MANHEIM
10AMSTERDAM
35SCHWETZINGEN
11UTRECHT
36CARLSRUHE
12NIMEGUEN
37VOLUME 2
13CLEVES
38FRIBURG
14XANTEN
39VOYAGE DOWN THE RHINE
15RHEINBERG
40BINGEN
16HOOGSTRASS
41EHRENFELS
17NEUSS
42PFALTZ
18COLOGNE
43KAUB
19BONN
44OBERWESEL
20GOODESBERG
45OBERWESEL
21THE VALLEY OF ANDERNACH
46ST. GOAR
22COBLENTZ
47BOPPART
23MONTABAUR
48PLACE OF ANTIENT ELECTIONS
24LIMBOURG
49INTERMIXTURE OF GERMAN TERRITORIES
25SELTERS
50EHRENBREITSTEIN
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