Materialism and The Monk

Cleo Cameron

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-84562-9_25

Materialism and The Monk

Cleo Cameron

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In 1796, Matthew G. Lewis capitalised on the turmoil of late eighteenth-century revolutionary violence, and upheaval, to unleash his scandalous novel The Monk. While the supernatural Gothic may appear to characterise his work, there are distinct materialist attributes that permeate his narrative undermining his Gothic schema. This essay seeks to explore Lewis’ Gothic materialism and how he uses it to challenge dominant dualist ontology, while also demonstrating that dogmatic philosophical or religious positioning is ill equipped to deal with the realities of human experience.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Palgrave Handbook of Gothic Origins
Editors	Clive Bloom
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan, London
Chapter	25
Pages	519-537
Number of pages	19
Volume	1
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-84562-9
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-84561-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84562-9_25
Publication status	Published - 22 Dec 2021

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