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Zofloya - or The Moor (Paperback)
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Zofloya - or The Moor (Paperback)
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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Few venture as thou hast in the alarming paths of sin.' This is the
final judgement of Satan on Victoria di Loredani, the heroine of
Zofloya, or The Moor (1806), a tale of lust, betrayal, and multiple
murder set in Venice in the last days of the fifteenth century. The
novel follows Victoria's progress from spoilt daughter of indulgent
aristocrats, through a period of abuse and captivity, to a career
of deepening criminality conducted under Satan's watchful eye.
Charlotte Dacre's narrative deftly displays her heroine's movement
from the vitalized position of Ann Radcliffe's heroines to a fully
conscious commitment to vice that goes beyond that of Monk' Lewis's
deluded Ambrosio. The novel's most daring aspect is its anatomy of
Victoria's intense sexual attraction to her Moorish servant Zofloya
that transgresses taboos both of class and race. A minor scandal on
its first publication, and a significant influence on Byron and
Shelley, Zofloya has been unduly neglected. Contradicting idealized
stereotypes of women's writing, the novel's portrait of indulged
desire, gratuitous cruelty, and monumental self-absorption retains
considerable power to disturb. The introduction to this edition,
the first for nearly 200 years, examines why Zofloya deserves to be
read alongside established Gothic classics as the highly original
work of an intriguing and unconventional writer.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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