Charlotte Dacre: The Passions - A Novel in Four Parts (1811)

A nineteenth-century epistolary novel about a vengeful woman, available to modern readers for the first time.

In The Passions (1811), Countess Appollonia Zulmer, beautiful, rich, and popular, can have any man she wants, at least until she meets Count Wiemar, who rejects her in favor of Julia, a simple and obedient woman. Despondent and then furious, Appollonia vows revenge on the couple, leading to madness, suffering, and death. An epistolary novel about the destructive power of emotion, The Passions offers new insights into early feminism, romance, and early nineteenth-century religion. It is an engrossing, powerful work of literature, featuring one of the most memorable female villains of all time. This edition makes the engrossing novel available to modern readers for the first time.

About the author

Jennifer Airey is professor of English at the University of Tulsa and the author of The Politics of Rape: Sexual Atrocity, Propaganda Wars, and the Restoration Stage and Religion Around Mary Shelley.

Summary

Charlotte Dacre’s The Passions is a thrilling gothic novel of thwarted love turned to hate, and the destructive power of uncontrolled emotion. It offers a powerful portrait of female treachery, engaging with nineteenth-century religious controversies, and championing Enlightenment rationality over the emotionality of Romanticism.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer L. Airey
• Assisted by: Jennifer L. Airey (Editor), Airey Jennifer L. (Editor)
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.05.2023
• EAN: 9781786839619
• ISBN: 978-1-78683-961-9
• No. of pages: 480
• Series: Gothic Originals
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; L, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Charlotte, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Jennifer, Four, Novel, passions, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Classic fiction: general and literary, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, 1811, Parts, Dacre, Airey