Autor: Matthew Lewis

Wydawnictwo: Black Letter Press

Rok wydania: 2023

Oprawa: twarda

Liczba stron: 559

ISBN: 5565623

Stan:  idealny (jak nowa)

Skala oceny na moich aukcjach:

1. Kiepski

2. Średni

3. Dobry

4. Bardzo dobry

5. Idealny (jak nowa)

6. Nowy

Opis

Matthew Gregory Lewis was in his late teens when he composed and published The Monk. Like Shelley, the Gothic had set his imagination alight, but while with Shelley this flowed into a Neo-Platonic Anarchism, Lewis detonated into a tendrilled three-volumes of sex, satan and unease.

In some respects an expression of the 1790s English anti-Catholic sentiment Dickens was to explore in Barnaby Rudge, and an emblem, perhaps, of Ancient Regime Europe, Lewis’ novel develops its themes of lust, violence and spiritual corruption for the joy of it, delighting in touching on as many taboos as possible. The moral backlash forced him to revise and self-censure in subsequent editions, but the damage had been done; Walpole’s aesthetic and whimsical supernaturalism had taken off into horror for horror’s sake, whose themes of sexual cruelty and nihilistic violence were to be amplified by Byron.