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Matthew
Lewis
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Born: 9 July
1775; London
- Father a
politician, mother attends court
- Oxford
- Weimar -
1792
- Attaché to
the British embassy at The Hague - 1792
- Enchanted by Radcliffe's Udolpho - 1794
- Member of
Parliament - 1796-1802
- Acquainted
w/Scott, Byron & Shelley
- Quarrells
w/his father - 1904-05
- Inherits
fortune & property in Jamaica - 1812
- Dies: 14 May
1818; at sea; yellow fever
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The Monk - 1796
The Castle Spectre -
1796
Journal of a West
Indian Proprietor - 1843 (posthumous) |
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- The fusion of
sexuality with violence, and specifically with revenge,
in The Monk is grounded in Lewis's perception of
the implications of conflict between the individual
sexual will and the forces inhibiting and prohibiting its
expression. It is as if he gradually became aware of
disastrous human potential in excess of that which can be
accounted for by environmental misfortunes. What if the
self is insatiable?
- - Howard
Anderson
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- The Audience
now assembled in the Capuchin Church was collected by
various causes, but all of them were foreign to the
ostensible motive. The Women came to show themselves, the
Men to see the Women: Some were attracted by curiosity to
hear an Orator so celebrated; Some came because they had
no better means of employing their time till the play
began; Some, from being assured that it would be
impossible to find places in the Church; and one half of
Madrid was brought thither by expecting to meet the other
half.
The
Monk
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