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Zofloya
Charlotte Dacre
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Description for Zofloya
Paperback. Through Victoria, the femme fatale heroine of her powerful Gothic novel, Charlotte Dacre revels in the uninhibited expression of female desire. Anne K. Mellor, UCLA Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 303 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
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. Lewis than with those of Ann Radcliffe, Charlotte Smith or Jane Austen. 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. Victoria is inspired to greater criminal and illicit acts by a ... Read more
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. Lewis than with those of Ann Radcliffe, Charlotte Smith or Jane Austen. 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. Victoria is inspired to greater criminal and illicit acts by a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd
Condition
New
Series
Broadview Editions
Number of Pages
303
Place of Publication
Peterborough, Canada
ISBN
9781551111469
SKU
V9781551111469
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About Charlotte Dacre
Adriana Craciun, formerly of the University of California at Davis, now teaches in the English Department at the University of Nottingham.
Reviews for Zofloya
Through Victoria, the femme fatale heroine of her powerful Gothic novel, Charlotte Dacre revels in the uninhibited expression of female desire; for sexual consummation, for psychological and political power, for religious transgression. This novel is superbly edited and introduced by Adriana Craciun." - Anne K. Mellor, UCLA "Like other editions in this fine series, this one provides an informative ... Read more