TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lewis,M.G.
TI  - The monk: A romance
T2  - Alma Classics
SN  - 9781847498168
AV  - PR4887 .M7 2002b
U1  - 823/.7 21
PY  - 2019///
CY  - London
PB  - Alma Classics
KW  - Monks
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Incest
KW  - Rape
KW  - Madrid (Spain)
KW  - Gothic fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Horror fiction
N1  - 990
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N2  - A masterpiece of the Gothic genre, The Monk tells the story of the Capuchin friar Ambrosio and his fall from grace through desire, greed and lust. Favourably reviewed at first, the novel was later so widely and raucously denounced for its perceived licentiousness, blasphemy and corrupting influence that Lewis had to remove controversial passages from future editions. Unsurprisingly, amidst this furore, the book was immensely popular with the reading public.

Suffused with eroticism, and focusing on the corrupting influence of power, The Monk pioneered a shocking new form of Gothic novel, where elements such as mob violence, incest and brutal murder replaced the gentler horrors of earlier practitioners of the genre
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