{"product_id":"9781941147733","title":"Lusignan; or, The Abbaye of La Trappe","description":"Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823) was the most popular and best-selling novelist of her time, earning a widespread readership and previously unheard-of sums of money for her Gothic novels \u003ci\u003eThe Mysteries of Udolpho\u003c\/i\u003e (1794) and \u003ci\u003eThe Italian\u003c\/i\u003e (1797). But after publishing \u003ci\u003eThe Italian\u003c\/i\u003e, at the height of her powers, she disappeared from the literary scene and never published another novel. Or did she?\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLusignan; or, The Abbaye of La Trappe\u003c\/i\u003e, issued anonymously in 1801 by the great purveyor of Gothic fiction, the Minerva Press, is the story of the ill-fated love between the virtuous Emily de Montalte and the handsome Lusignan, and it bears remarkable similarities in theme and style to Radcliffe's works. With a quintessentially Gothic plot that features all the trappings of the genre, including a haughty aristocrat, a scheming monk, lovers immured in dungeons and convents, and a subterranean chapel haunted by a horrible spectre, \u003ci\u003eLusignan\u003c\/i\u003e will be of great interest to both scholars and fans of Gothic fiction alike, whether the book is in fact by Radcliffe or merely an unusually skilled imitator.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis first-ever republication of \u003ci\u003eLusignan\u003c\/i\u003e, a novel so rare that it survives in only one known copy worldwide, includes the unabridged text of the original four-volume edition as well as a substantial new scholarly introduction and extensive annotations by Dr. Jacqueline Howard, who has previously argued in a published article that \u003ci\u003eLusignan\u003c\/i\u003e could be the work of Radcliffe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Valancourt Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47058767053040,"sku":"9781941147733","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781941147733_p0.jpg?v=1763668605","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781941147733","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}