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

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.

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