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Charlotte Dacre : A Novel in Four Parts (1811).
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Airey, Jennifer L.
- Series:
- Gothic Originals
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (394 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- La Vergne : University of Wales Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- Charlotte Dacre's The Passions is a thrilling gothic novel of thwarted love turned to hate, and the destructive power of uncontrolled emotion. It offers a powerful portrait of female treachery, engaging with nineteenth-century religious controversies, and championing Enlightenment rationality over the emotionality of Romanticism.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Biography
- Dacre and Early Feminism
- Epistolarity, 'La nouvelle Héloïse' and the Problem of the Female Reader
- Religion, Atheism and 'The Passions'
- Romanticism and Ruins
- Madness and the Gothic Sublime
- Select Bibliography
- Note on the Text
- THE PASSIONS
- Volume I
- Letter 1
- Letter 2
- Letter 3
- Letter 4
- Letter 5
- Letter 6
- Letter 7
- Letter 8
- Letter 9
- Letter 10
- Letter 11
- Letter 12
- Letter 13
- Letter 14
- Letter 15
- Letter 16
- Letter 17
- Letter 18
- Letter 19
- Letter 20
- Letter 21
- Letter 22
- Letter 23
- Letter 24
- Letter 25
- Letter 26
- Letter 27
- Volume II
- Letter 28
- Letter 29
- Letter 30
- Letter 31
- Letter 32
- Letter 33
- Letter 34
- Letter 35
- Letter 36
- Letter 37
- Letter 38
- Letter 39
- Letter 40
- Letter 41
- Letter 42
- Letter 43
- Letter 44
- Letter 45
- Letter 46
- Letter 47
- Letter 48
- Letter 49
- Letter 50
- Letter 51
- Letter 52
- Letter 53
- Letter 54
- Letter 55
- Letter 56
- Letter 57
- Letter 58
- Letter 59
- Volume III
- Letter 60
- Letter 61
- Letter 62
- Letter 63
- Letter 64
- Letter 65
- Letter 66
- Letter 67
- Letter 68
- Letter 69
- Letter 70
- Letter 71
- Letter 72
- Letter 73
- Letter 74
- Letter 75
- Letter 76
- Letter 77
- Letter 78
- Letter 79
- Letter 80
- Volume IV
- Letter 81
- Letter 82
- Letter 83
- Letter 84
- Letter 85
- Letter 86
- Letter 87
- Letter 88
- Letter 89
- Letter 90
- Letter 91
- Letter 92
- Letter 93
- Conclusion
- Emendation List
- End-of-Line Hyphens
- Explanatory Notes.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781786839633
- 1786839636
- OCLC:
- 1385455853
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