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Zofloya; Or, The Moor: A Romance Of The Fifteenth Century (gothic Novels Ii) by [by] Charlotte Dacre ("Rosa Matilda") New foreword by G. Wilson Knight; new introd. by Devendra P. Varma is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Zofloya; Or, The Moor: A Romance Of The Fifteenth Century (gothic Novels Ii) about?

"'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 fifteenth 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 depiction 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 edit

Author

[by] Charlotte Dacre ("Rosa Matilda") New foreword by G. Wilson Knight; new introd. by Devendra P. Varma

Publisher

Ayer Co Pub

Published

1974

Language

EN

ISBN

9780405060113

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-24