The Monk,9781551112275

The Monk

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ISBN13: 9781551112275
ISBN10: 1551112272
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-11-01
Publisher(s): Broadview Pr
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Summary

The Monk is the most sensational of Gothic novels. The main plot concerns Ambrosio, an abbot of irreproachable holiness, who is seduced by a woman (or perhaps a demon) disguised as a novice, and who goes on to sell his soul to the Devil. An extravagant blend of sex, death, politics, Satanism, and poetry, the work greatly appealed to the Marquis de Sade. The Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and appendices of historical materials that address the novel's literary sources (in English, German, and Greek literature), historical contexts (the French Revolution, slavery and abolition debates, sexuality), critical reception, and influence.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 7(2)
Introduction 9(18)
Matthew Gregory Lewis: A Brief Chronology 27(3)
A Note on the Text 30(3)
The Monk
Vol. 1
33(100)
Vol. 2
133(114)
Vol. 3
247(118)
Appendix A: Literary Sources
1. Richard Steele, The Guardian, 31 August 1713
365(2)
2. Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, 1747-48
367(2)
a. Lovelace's Dream
367(2)
b. Clarissa's Dream
369(1)
3. Johann Karl August Musäus, "The Elopement"
369(10)
4. Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, "The Eternal Jew"
379(3)
5. Matthew Gregory Lewis, "Imitation of Anacreon"
382(2)
Appendix B: Historical Contexts
1. The French Revolution
384(4)
a. Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790
384(1)
b. Matthew Gregory Lewis, "France and England in 1793"
385(2)
c. Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason,1794-95
387(1)
2. Colonialism and Slavery
388(4)
a. Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Castle Spectre, 1797
388(1)
b. Matthew Gregory Lewis, Journal of a West India Proprietor, 1815-18
389(3)
3. Georgian Homophobia
392(2)
a. The Trying and Pilloring of the Vere Street Club, 1810
392
Appendix C: Critical Reception
1. [Mary Wollstonecraft?], Analytical Review, October 1796
394(1)
2. European Magazine, February 1797
395(3)
3. [Samuel Taylor Coleridge], Critical Review, February 1797
398(4)
4. "An Apology for the Monk," Monthly Mirror, April 1797
402(6)
5. Matthew Gregory Lewis, letter to his father, 23 February 1798
408(2)
6. Matthew Gregory Lewis, Preface to Adelmorn, the Outlaw, 1801
410(1)
7. Le Décade philosophique, 9 May 1797
411(1)
8. Spectateur du nord, April June 1798
412(3)
9. Marquis de Sade, "Reflections on the Novel," 1800
415(1)
10. Ann Radcliffe, "On the Supernatural in Poetry," 1826
415(3)
Appendix D: Cultural Responses
1. Charles Farley, Raymond and Agnes,1797
418(4)
2. "The Bleeding Nun," 1801
422(3)
3. Almagro & Claude; or Monastic Murder, 1810
425(32)
Appendix E:Variants 457(18)
Works Cited and Recommended Reading 475

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