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. 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. 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. Charlotte Dacre Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806 - Venice (Italy) - 236 pages 0 Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google checks. - Eminently indeed calculated to excite an ardent love in youth, was the mind and person of the orphan Lilla. 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. Zofloya: Or, The Moor: a Romance of the Fifteenth Century. Zofloya is a novel in the gothic tradition, begun by Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto (1764), and developed by Matthew Lewis’ The Monk (1796), and Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) and The Italian (1797), among others.

Lewis than with those of Ann Radcliffe, Charlotte Smith or Jane Austen. Zofloya the Moor (1806) The Libertine (1807) Addeddate 15:08:52 Identifier ZofloyatheMoor Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t7np7bj1z Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11. 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.

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