Life
Baron-Wilson, Margaret, The Life and Correspondence of M. G. Lewis, 2 vols. (London: Henry Colburn, 1839).
Macdonald, D. L., Monk Lewis: A Critical Biography (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000).
Peck, Louis F., A Life of Matthew G. Lewis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1961).
Leask, Nigel, ‘Matthew Gregory Lewis’, ODNB.
Summers, Montague, The Gothic Quest: A History of the Gothic Novel (London: Fortune, 1938).
The 1790s Context
Davis, Natalie Zemon, Society and Culture in Early Modern France (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1975).
Haydon, Colin, Anti-Catholicism in Eighteenth-Century England, c. 1714–1780: A Political and Social Study (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993).
Hibbert, Christopher, King Mob: The Story of Lord George Gordon and the Riots of 1780 (New York: Dorset, 1989).
McCann, Andrew, Cultural Politics in the 1790s: Literature, Radicalism and the Public Sphere (London: Macmillan, 1999).
O’Malley, Patrick R., Catholicism, Sexual Deviance, and Victorian Gothic Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
Porter, Roy (ed.), Myths of the English (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992).
Purves, Maria, The Gothic and Catholicism: Religion, Cultural Exchange and the Popular Novel, 1785−1829 (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2009).
Rousseau, G. S., and Porter, Roy (eds), Sexual Underworlds of the Enlightenment (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987).
Sage, Victor, Horror Fiction in the Protestant Tradition (London: Macmillan, 1988).
Gothic Literary Criticism
Andriano, Joseph, Our Ladies of Darkness: Feminine Daemonology in Male Gothic Fiction (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993).
Bridgwater, Patrick, The German Gothic Novel in Anglo-German Perspective (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013).
Byron, Glennis, and Punter, David (eds), Spectral Readings: Towards a Gothic Geography (New York: St Martin’s, 1999).
Chaplin, Sue, Gothic Literature (London: York Press, 2011).
Clery, E. J., The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762–1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
Conger, Syndy M., Matthew G. Lewis, Charles Robert Maturin, and the Germans: An Interpretative Study of the Influence of German Literature on Two Gothic Novels (Salzburg: Institut für Englische Sprach und Literatur, 1977).
Davenport-Hines, Richard, Gothic: 400 Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin (London: Fourth Estate, 1998).
Ellis, Markham, The History of Gothic Fiction (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000).
Ferguson, Kate, The Contested Castle: Gothic Novels and the Subversion of Domestic Ideology (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989).
Gamer, Michael, Romanticism and the Gothic: Genre, Reception, and Canon Formation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Groom, Nick, The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).
Kiely, Robert, The Romantic Novel in England (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1973).
Kilgour, Maggie, The Rise of the Gothic Novel (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 1995).
Mazzeo, Tilar J., Plagiarism and Literary Property in the Romantic Period (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007).
Miles, Robert, Gothic Writing, 1750–1820: A Genealogy (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003).
Parreaux, André, The Publication of The Monk: A Literary Event 1796–1798 (Paris: M. Didier, 1960).
Perry, Ruth, Novel Relations: The Transformation of Kinship in English Literature and Culture, 1748–1818 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
Praz, Mario, The Romantic Agony, trans. Angus Davidson (2nd edn., London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1970).
Robertson, Fiona, Legitimate Histories: Scott, Gothic, and the Authorities of Fiction (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994).
Watt, James, Contesting the Gothic: Fiction, Genre and Cultural Conflict, 1764–1832 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
Williams, Anne, Art of Darkness: A Poetics of Gothic (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995).
p. xlvArticles and Chapters on The Monk
Acosta, Ana M., ‘Hotbeds of Popery: Convents in the English Literary Imagination’, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 15/3–4 (2003), 615–42.
Blakemore, Steven, ‘Matthew Lewis’s Black Mass: Sexual, Religious Inversion in The Monk’, Studies in the Novel, 30/4 (1998), 521–39.
Brooks, Peter, ‘Virtue and Terror: The Monk’, ELH 40/2 (1973), 249–63.
Gamer, Michael, ‘Authors in Effect: Lewis, Scott, and the Gothic Drama’, English Literary History, 66/4 (1999), 831–61.
———‘Genres for the Prosecution: Pornography and the Gothic’, PMLA 114/5 (1999), 1043–54.
Maniquis, Robert M., ‘Filling Up and Emptying Out the Sublime: Terror in British Radical Culture’, Huntington Library Quarterly, 63/3 (2000), 369–405.
Miles, Robert, ‘Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis’, in David Punter (ed.), A Companion to the Gothic (Malden, Mass., and Oxford: Blackwell, 2008), 41–57.
Mortensen, Peter, ‘The Englishness of the English Gothic Novel: Romance Writing in an Age of Europhobia’, in Frédéric Ogée (ed.), ‘Better in France?’: The Circulation of Ideas across the Channel in the Eighteenth Century (Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 2005, 269–89.
Paulson, Ronald, ‘Gothic Fiction and the French Revolution’, ELH 48/3 (1981), 532–54.
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, ‘The Character in the Veil: Imagery of the Surface in the Gothic’, PMLA 96/2 (1981), 255–70.
Wagner, Peter, ‘Anticatholic Erotica in Eighteenth-Century England’, in WagnerP. (ed.), Erotica and the Enlightenment (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1991), 166–209.
Watkins, Daniel P., ‘Social Hierarchy in Matthew Lewis’s The Monk’, Studies in the Novel, 18/2 (1986), 115–24.
Wickman, Matthew, ‘Terror’s Abduction of Experience: A Gothic History’, Yale Journal of Criticism, 18/1 (2005), 179–206.
Further Reading in Oxford World’s Classics
Burke, Edmund, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, ed. Paul Guyer.
———Reflections on the Revolution in France, ed. L. G. Mitchell.
Radcliffe, Ann, The Italian, ed. Frederick Garber.
——The Mysteries of Udolpho, ed. Bonamy Dobree and Terry Castle.
Sade, Marquis de, Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue, trans. John Phillips.
Walpole, Horace, The Castle of Otranto, ed. Nick Groom.