Zofloya, or the Moor

Autor*innen

• Charlotte Dacre

Parameter

• 280 Seiten
• 10 Lesestunden

• 19. Jahrhundert
• Belletristik
• Historische Romane
• Horror
• Klassiker

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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 and Shelley, it contradicts idealized stereotypes in women's writing and challenges the received idea of the Gothic genre's representation of passive, victimized women.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Einband: Paperback