Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Matthew Gregory Lewis
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Standard Name: Lewis, Matthew Gregory
Used Form: M. G. Lewis
Used Form: Monk Lewis
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maria Riddell | The diary records some of her literary tastes: she copied there a letter expressing her dislike of tragedies (which, no matter how moral, she felt to be harmful to the mind because of the violent... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Robinson | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Regina Maria Roche | This novel claims relationship with Macpherson
's Ossian through quotations appearing on its title-page and heading its chapters. An element of terror derives from Matthew Gregory Lewis
's notorious The Monk, 1796. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Percy Bysshe Shelley | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Shelley | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Sheridan | Sidney Bidulph was also influential. It helped shape the depiction of unhappy marriage in Lennox
's Euphemia. Catto, Susan J. Modest Ambition: The Influence of Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, and the Ideal of Female Diffidence on Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, and Frances Brooke. University of Oxford. 204 |
Education | Linda Villari | During the time she spent at her great-aunt's house in Croydon, LV
's novel suggests she was taught at home by a family governess, a close friend of her mother, identified there as Miss... |
Textual Production | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | T. and R. Hughes
published SSW
's anonymous 38-page chapbook The Castle Spectre; or, Family Horrors. A Gothic Story, derived from Matthew Lewis
's drama of the same title, 1796. University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/. |
Literary responses | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | George Saintsbury
in 1913 developed an attack on this book as very nearly consummate in badness. . . . a fair example of the worst imitations of Mrs. Radcliffe
and Matthew Lewis
conjointly, though without... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | The long title of Crazy Jane promises an account of their birth, parentage, courtship, and melancholy end. Founded on facts. Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books. 54 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Wollstonecraft | The Critical Review rose to the challenge of this work, arguing that this story showed that Wollstonecraft's real talents lay in the novel: not for the usual, superficial variety, but for a tale of interest... |
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