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The Monk.
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In the following essay, the anonymous critic maintains that The Monk expounds lessons of virtue, rather than of vice, as many reviewers have contended.
It is with no inconsiderable pain that I have re...
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In the following review, the critic describes the literary sources of The Monk, adding that obscenity "pervades and deforms the whole organization of this novel. "
This novel has a doubl...
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In the following excerpt, Summers details the composition, contemporary critical reception, plot, style, sources, translations, adaptations, and literary influence of The Monk. Only those footnotes pe...
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In the following essay, Gose undertakes a psychoanalytic survey of The Monk, noting its "unresolved tensions" of "sexual conflict, violated taboos, and self-destructive impulses.&...
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In the following essay, Grudin assesses the "formal coherence " of The Monk, claiming that evidence for its structural unity exists in an interpretation of Matilda as a demonic being.
I ...
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In the following essay, Lydenberg investigates "Lewis's ambivalence toward his authorial responsibility" as moral judge in The Monk.
The Gothic novel is rarely, if ever, celebrate...
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In the following essay, Kauhl examines the motif of transgression, as both a psychological and a political fact in The Monk.
In the Madrid of the Inquisition, "a city where superstition reigns ...
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Critical Essay by "A Friend to Genius"
