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  • Published in print: 14 January 2016
  • Published online: 16 December 2020

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).
  • p. xlivBrown, Marshall, The Gothic Text (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2005).
  • 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.