This article is based on an excerpt from my dissertation titled South-Italian Englishness: caratterizzazioni inattese in “A Sicilian Romance” e “The Italian” di Ann Radcliffe (MA Course in Euroamerican Languages, Literatures and Philologies, University of Pisa, 2024). It deals with the symbolic interplay involving external geographies and the protagonists’ worldview in Ann Radcliffe’s A Sicilian Romance (1790) and The Italian (1797) and also refers to the philosophical and literary influences lying underneath the surface of her chimerical “South”. Radcliffe’s physical landscape, often in tune with the suppressed voices of female characters, is here reconsidered through an eco-gothic lens that emphasises the protagonists’ intimate relationship with nature.…
