The Italian has been read as an answer to The Monk by Lewis
, a vindication of terror (assaults on the nerves, the strain of threatened but imperfectly perceived danger) against horror (sexual obsession and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
Owenson's hero here is Hilarion, a Portuguese nobleman turned monk and missionary; her heroine is Luxima, Princess of Cashmire, whose rank also brings her an important Hindu religious function. Hilarion goes to India seeking the...
politics
Mary Ward
A warrant from the Inquisition
for MW
's arrest as a heretic, schismatic, and rebel to the Holy Church
Chambers, Mary Catharine Elizabeth. The Life of Mary Ward (1585-1645). Editor Coleridge, Henry James, Burns and Oates.
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caught up with her at Munich and she was imprisoned at the Anger Convent...