Zofloya by Charlotte Dacre
"Few venture as thou hast in the alarming paths of sin." This is the final judgement of Satan on Victoria di Loredani, the heroine of "Zofloya", or "The Moor" (1806), a tale of lust, betrayal, and multiple murder set in Venice in the last days of the 15th century. The novel follows Victoria's progress from spoilt daughter of indulgent aristocrats, through a period of abuse and captivity, to a career of deepening criminality conducted under Satan's watchful eye. Charlotte Dacre's narrative deftly displays her heroine's movement from the vitalized position of Ann Radcliffe's heroines to a fully conscious commitment to vice that goes beyond that of `Monk' Lewis's deluded Ambrosio. The novel's most daring aspect is its anatomy of Victoria's intense sexual attraction to her Moorish servant Zofloya that transgresses taboos both of class and race. A minor scandal on its first publication, and a significant influence on Byron and Shelley, Zofloya has been unduly neglected. Contradicting idealized stereotypes of women's writing, the novel's portrait of indulged desire, gratuitous cruelty, and monumental self-absorption retains considerable power to disturb. The introduction to this edition, the first for nearly 200 years, examines why Zofloya deserves to be read alongside established Gothic classics as the highly original work of an intriguing and unconventional writer.-
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Dacre, Charlotte: - Charlotte Dacre (1771 ou 1772 - 7 novembre 1825)est une femme de lettres anglaise, autrice de romans gothiques.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780192832399 |
| ISBN 10 | 0192832395 |
| Title | Zofloya |
| Author | Charlotte Dacre |
| Series | ^Aworld's Classics Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1997-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 316 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |