Zofloya (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
303
Utgivningsdatum
1997-06-01
Upplaga
New ed
Förlag
Broadview Press Ltd
Medarbetare
Craciun, Adriana (red.)
Dimensioner
216 x 140 x 13 mm
Vikt
318 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781551111469

Zofloya

Or the Moor

Häftad,  Engelska, 1997-06-01
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The protagonist of Charlotte Dacre's best known novel, Zofloya, or the Moor (1806) is unique in women's Gothic and Romantic literature, and has more in common with the heroines of Sade or M.G. Lewis than with those of Ann Radcliffe, Charlotte Smith or Jane Austen. No heroine of Radcliffe or Austen could exult, as Victoria does in this novel, that "there is certainly a pleasure...in the infliction of prolonged torment." The sexual desires and ambition of Dacre's protagonist, Victoria, drive her to seduce, torture and murder. Victoria is inspired to greater criminal and illicit acts by a seductive Lucifer, disguised as a Moor, before she too is plunged into an abyss by her demon lover. The text's unusual evocations of the female body and feminine subject are of particular interest in the context of the history of sexuality and of the body; after embarking on a series of violent crimes, Victoria's body actually begins to grow stronger and decidedly more masculine. Among the documents included as appendices to this volume are a selection of Dacre's poetry and excerpts from Bienville's Nymphomania, a medical treatise of the time aimed at a lay audience that focuses largely on the dangerous powers of women's imagination; inspired by improper novels, it is alleged that women may plunge into madness, violence and death-much as does the protagonist of Zofloya herself.
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Through Victoria, the femme fatale heroine of her powerful Gothic novel, Charlotte Dacre revels in the uninhibited expression of female desire; for sexual consummation, for psychological and political power, for religious transgression. This novel is superbly edited and introduced by Adriana Craciun." - Anne K. Mellor, UCLA "Like other editions in this fine series, this one provides an informative critical introduction, as well as several appendixes featuring notable sources for Dacre's novel and selections from the reviews it received in 1806." - Nineteenth-Century Literature

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Adriana Craciun, formerly of the University of California at Davis, now teaches in the English Department at the University of Nottingham.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements Introduction A Note on the Text Charlotte Dacre: A Brief Chronology Zofloya Appendix A: From Nymphomania Appendix B: Select Contemporary Reviews of Zofloya Appendix C: Poems from Dacre's Hours of Solitude Appendix D: The Daemon of Venice Select Bibliography