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Charlotte Dacre
This is the first edition for nearly 200 years of an unduly neglected work, originally published in 1806, by an intriguing and unconventional woman writer. A Gothic tale of lust, betrayal, and multiple murder set in fifteenth-century Venice, the novel's most daring aspect is its anatomy of the central character, Victoria's, intense sexual attraction to her Moorish servant Zofloya. A minor scandal on its first publication, and a significant influence on Byron andShelley, it contradicts idealized stereotypes in women's writing and challenges the received idea of the Gothic genre's representation of passive, victimized women.
320 pages, 1 frontispiece
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | July 10, 2008 |
| ISBN13 | 9780199549733 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 320 |
| Dimensions | 129 × 195 × 16 mm · 222 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Michasiw, Kim Ian (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, York University, Ontario) |
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