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Zofloya

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Zofloya

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This is the first edition for nearly 200 years of an unduly neglected work, originally published in 1806, by an intriguing and unconventional woman writer. A Gothic tale of lust, betrayal, and multiple murder set in fifteenth-century Venice, the novel's most daring aspect is its anatomy of the central character, Victoria's, intense sexual attraction to her Moorish servant Zofloya. A minor scandal on its first publication, and a significant influence on Byron and Shelley, it contradicts idealized stereotypes in women's writing and challenges the received idea of the Gothic genre's representation of passive, victimized women.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
279
Release Date:
2008-09-01
Publication Date:
2008-07-10
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0199549737
ISBN13:
9780199549733
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Weight:
229 g
Height:
128 cm
Width:
196 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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