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Charlotte Dacre : A Novel in Four Parts (1811).

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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
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Volume II
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Volume III
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Volume IV
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Conclusion
Emendation List
End-of-Line Hyphens
Explanatory Notes.
Notes:
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ISBN:
9781786839633
1786839636
OCLC:
1385455853

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