Chapter Text
Contemporaneously Gothic, Romantic
literary movements
the roman noir
by such writers by such writers
author
The Seer
of works more horrific and violent
the Gothic
The fruit of this harvest of horrors
lurid tale of monastic debauchery, black magic, and diabolism
The novel could be read as a pastiche of the genre, self-parody
a constituent part of the Gothic from the time of inception.
appalled some contemporary readers; depraved, sadistic
spectral nuns
scurrilous view of the important development
influenced established terror-writer
ensnared in a web of deceit
eventually dragged
transcend the horror of these scenes
she would have to visit hell itself.
The framework for fiction,
critiqued in the preface
“the inevitable product of the revolutionary shock with which the whole resounded”
This correlation
between the
Terror
and the
“terrorist”
of writing
represented
and was noted