Zofloya, or, The Moor / Charlotte Dacre.

[New ed.] / edited with an introduction and notes by Kim Ian Michasiw.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.

xxxv, 280 p. ; 20 cm.

This ed. originally published: 1997.
Includes bibliographical references (p. xxxii-xxxiii).

This is a gothic tale of lust, betrayal and multiple murder set in 15th-century Venice. A minor scandal on its first publication, it contradicts idealised stereotypes in women's writing and challenges the idea of passive victimised women.

9780199549733 (pbk)

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