The Monk - Brossura

Lewis, Matthew

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0192833944 ISBN 13: 9780192833945

Casa editrice: Oxford Paperbacks, 1998

Riassunto

`The Monk was so highly popular that it seemed to create an epoch in our literature', wrote Sir Walter Scott. Set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid, The Monk is a violent tale of ambition, murder, and incest. The great struggle between maintaining monastic vows and fulfilling personal ambitions leads its main character, the monk Ambrosio, to temptation and the breaking of his vows, then to sexual obsession and rape, and finally to murder in order to conceal his guilt. Inspired by German horror romanticism and the work of Ann Radcliffe, Lewis produced his masterpiece at the age of nineteen. It contains many typical Gothic elements - seduction in a monastery, lustful monks, evil Abbesses, bandits and beautiful heroines. But, as the Introduction to this new edition shows, Lewis also played with convention, ranging from gruesome realism to social comedy, and even parodied the genre in which he was writing.

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Recensione

`The Monk was so highly popular that it seemed to create an epoch in our literature.' Sir Walter Scott.

L'autore

Emma McEvoy is a Lecturer at Goldsmith's College.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oxford Paperbacks
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0192833944
• ISBN 13: 9780192833945
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 496
• Redattore: McEvoy Emma