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| | Literary Encyclopedia: Lewis, Matthew |
 | | Matthew Lewis was born in London into a family whose wealth derived from their ownership of sugar plantations in Jamaica. | | | Lewis was educated at Marylebone Seminary, Westminster School, and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating in 1794. | | | Lewis also wrote a certain amount of poetry, and although he was never considered a major figure in this field, it was generally agreed by his contemporaries that he was technically very competent: “There's always a violet among his weeds”, as one of his acquaintances somewhat grudgingly conceded. |
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| | Matthew Gregory Lewis -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | The English novelist and dramatist Matthew Gregory Lewis became famous overnight after the sensational success of his Gothic novel The Monk, published in 1796. | | | A Gothic romance by Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Monk tells the story of a monk who turns evil and ultimately sells his soul to the devil. | | | Commentary on Matthew by Origen, one of the Fathers of the early Christian church. |
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http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-9315048?tocId=9315048
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| | Matthew G. Lewis: A History of Horror |
| | Such was the success of The Monk when it was published in 1796 that for the rest of his life its author, Matthew Gregory Lewis, was commonly referred to as "Monk" Lewis. | | | Matthew Lewis's place in the world was actually rather divided, between the world of duty and responsibility represented by his father and the more unstable, yet more artistic, world associated with his mother. | | | In fact there are signs that Lewis began the book much earlier. |
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| | LEWIS-GGIII |
| | BOHLS, Elizabeth A. “The Planter Picturesque: Matthew Lewis’s | | | O‘CONNOR, Robert H. “Matthew Gregory Lewis and the Gothic Ballad.” | | | “On the Release from Monkish Fetters: Matthew Lewis Reconsidered.” [ |
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| | Romanticism On the Net 8 (November 1997) |
| | Here, Lewis apparently encourages readers to scrutinize the novel for hints about the identity of its author, and seems to answer those questions beforehand. | | | Lewis to make us feel, with the same force as heretofore, the simple beauties of that composition." | | | As Lewis was aware, writing in the debased genre of the Gothic novel was an unlikely route to literary laurels, since the genre was commonly constructed as the province of hack writers, especially women. |
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http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/1997/v/n8/005775ar.html
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| | Arts - Literature - World Literature - British - Gothic - Lewis, Matthew - Newsletter - News - Reviews - Education - Ratings |
| | And my latest recommendation is The Monk By: Matthew Lewis Yeah, he looks all sweet and innocent. | | | MATTHEW GREGORY LEWIS LoveToKnow Article on MATTHEW GREGORY LEWIS He was educated for a diplomatic career at Westminster school and at Christ Church, Oxford, spending most of his vacations abroad in the study of modern languages; and in 794 he proceeded to the Hague... | | | Matthew Lewis wrote this novel in ten weeks when he was nineteen. |
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http://www.newsletter-library.com/Arts/Literature/World_Literature/British/Gothic/Lewis,_Matthew
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| | THE MONK |
| | So is Lewis' novel "Hollywood" in print or more perceptive in its illumination of the human experience? | | | 18--On page 79, does Lewis provide motivation for the Monk's decision at the end of the chapter? | | | 2--Note that Lewis piles depravity on depravity--the archetype is "the descent" to the underworld. |
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http://stjohns-chs.org/english/gothic/works/TheMonk.html
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| | Lewis, Matthew Gregory on Encyclopedia.com |
| | LEWIS, MATTHEW GREGORY [Lewis, Matthew Gregory] 1775-1818, English author, b. | | | He was often called "Monk" Lewis from the title of his extravagant Gothic romance The Monk (1796), the writing of which was influenced by the tales of Ann Radcliffe. | | | Charges of immorality and irreligion brought against Lewis by his critics caused a less offensive second edition to be published. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/L/LewisM1a.asp
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| | Main Street by Sinclair Lewis |
| | Lewis has done for myself and thousands of others is to lodge a piece of a continent in our imagination,' said E. Forster. | | | Lewis further enhanced his reputation as national gadfly with two more popular satires: Elmer Gantry (1927), a controversial attack on the hypocrisy of fundamentalist religion as practiced by flamboyant Bible Belt evangelists, and Dodsworth (1929), the tale of a Babbitt-like businessman abroad. | | | Lewis released them." Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951), was born in Sauk Centre, Minne-sota, and graduated from Yale in 1907; in 1930 he became the first American recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. |
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| | A Brief Historical Overview |
| | Inspired by Radcliffe and influenced by German sensationalist horror tales, Matthew Lewis wrote The Monk (1796). | | | The genre takes its name from The Castle of Otranto's medievalor Gothicsetting; early Gothic novelists tended to set their novels in remote times like the Middle Ages and in remote places like Italy (Matthew Lewis's The Monk, 1796) or the Middle East (William Beckford's Vathek, 1786). | | | Their different approaches to the novel of terror, as it was called in the eighteenth century, have given been called by some critics terror Gothic, represented by Radcliffe, and horror Gothic, represented by Lewis. |
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http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/gothic/history.html
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| | Nightmareweb |
| | The book is one of the early examples of the Gothic genre, earning itself a respectable place alongside The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story (1764) by Horace Walpole (1717-1797), The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) by Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823) and The Monk (1776) by Matthew Lewis (1775-1818). | | | It is claimed that in turn, Mary Shelley was influenced in her reading of Lewiss The Monk. | | | Lewis made a huge impact with his only novel The Monk, which more-or-less defined the far edge of sensational Gothicism when it was published in 1796. |
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| | Port Washington Public Library: Sinclair Lewis Collection - Text Only |
| | Beneath this he has written "With best wishes to the Port Washington Library from Sinclair Lewis (and Barnaby Conrad who was his secretary in 1947 and used to sign his checks and autographs for him!" | | | -- Reprints the text of a letter from Dorothy Thompson to Lewis. | | | Lewis used his experiences on this trip as the basis for his 1926 novel Mantrap. |
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http://www.pwpl.org/text/specialtext/SinclairLewis/sl-11.html
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| | Matthew Gregory Lewis Biography / Biography of Matthew Gregory Lewis Main Biography |
| | The English novelist and playwright Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818), known as Monk Lewis, a popular writer during the early 19th century, is remembered today only as the author of a Gothic novel, "The Monk." | | | Matthew G. Lewis was born in London on July 9, 1775. | | | Lewis was sent to Westminster School at the age of 8 and to Christ Church, Oxford, at the age of 15. |
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| | §18. Matthew Gregory Lewis: "The Monk". XIII. The Growth of the Later Novel. Vol. 11. The Period of the French Revolution. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21 |
| | Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference > Cambridge History > The Period of the French Revolution > The Growth of the Later Novel > Matthew Gregory Lewis: The Monk | | | Lewis before his early death, wrote (or, rather, translated) other novels; but none of them attained, or, in the very slightest degree, deserved, the vogue of The Monk, or of his plays and verses. | | | The temptress Matilda de Villanegas (better taken as an actual woman, fiend-inspired, than as a mere succubus) ranks next to Schedoni, in this division, as a character; and the final destruction and damnation of the villainous hero is not quite so ludicrous as it very easily might have been. |
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| | Matthew Gregory Lewis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Matthew Gregory Lewis (July 9, 1775- May 14, 1818) was an English novelist and dramatist, often referred to as "Monk" Lewis, because of the success of his Gothic novel, The Monk. | | | Lewis published a second edition from which he removed what he thought were the objectionable passages, but the work regained much of its horrific character. | | | Lord Byron in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers wrote of "Wonder-working Lewis, Monk or Bard, who fain wouldst make Parnassus a churchyard; Even Satan's self with thee might dread to dwell, And in thy skull discern a deeper hell." |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Gregory_Lewis
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| | Matthew Gregory Lewis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Matthew Gregory Lewis (July 9, 1775- May 14, 1818) was an English novelist and dramatist, often referred to as "Monk" Lewis, because of the success of his Gothic novel, The Monk. | | | Lewis published a second edition from which he removed what he thought were the objectionable passages, but the work reained much of its horrific character. | | | Lord Byron in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers wrote of "Wonder-working Lewis, Monk or Bard, who fain wouldst make Parnassus a churchyard; Even Satan's self with thee might dread to dwell, And in thy skull discern a deeper hell." |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Gregory_Lewis
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| | Pen and Paper: "...handsome, clever, and rich..." |
| | I delighted in finding that the site also makes reference to a Gothic novelist, Matthew Lewis (Monk) who's credited with being the last of the rationalist Gothic novelists. | | | Monk was suprisingly hypersexual--I was taken aback by many of its scenes--and graphically violent; it was a tasty little morsel (definitely not for children), but who doesn't enjoy the occasional guilty pleasure? | | | One of our cats is named Jane Austen and I have a bumper sticker that reads "I'd rather be reading Jane Austen," so you can imagine how fond I am of her. |
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http://myfavoriteanathenaeum.blogspot.com/2005/05/handsome-clever-and-rich.html
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| | LEWIS, MATTHEW GREGORY ... - Online Information article about LEWIS, MATTHEW GREGORY ... |
| | - Online Information article about LEWIS, MATTHEW GREGORY... | | | MATTHEW, ST (MaOOaior or MarOaIos, probably a shortened form of the Hebrew equivalent to Theodorus) | | | Lewis published a second edition from which he had expunged, as he thought, all the objectionable passages, but the See also: |
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| | The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Romantic Age: Topic 2: Texts and Contexts |
| | Matthew Gregory Lewis's The Monk, written in ten weeks when the author was nineteen and published in 1796 when he was twenty, is the most lurid of the Gothic novels and, at the same time, one of the most vividly written (a combination guaranteed to produce a best-seller). | | | Ambrosio, abbot of the Capuchin monastery in Madrid, goes from a pinnacle of self-satisfied saintliness to become one of the most depraved villains in all fiction. | | | The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Romantic Age: Topic 2: Texts and Contexts |
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| | Novel18c |
| | "Matthew Lewis's Black Mass: Sexual, Religious Inversion in The Monk." Studies-in-the-Novel 30 (1998): 521-39. | | | "Literature and Homosexuality in the Late Eighteenth Century: Walpole, Beckford, and Lewis." Wayne R. Dynes and Stephen Donaldson, eds. | | | Unsex'd revolutionaries: Five Women Novelists of the 1790's. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: The Monk (Oxford World's Classics): Books |
| | Customers who bought books by Matthew Lewis also bought books by these authors: | | | Matthew Lewis was clearly a genius writing this at 19. | | | I would like to applaud Matthew Lewis, and tell you the reader that I hope you enjoy this book as much as I did. |
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| | TRM: Sir Guy the Seeker by Matthew Gregory Lewis |
| | TRM: Sir Guy the Seeker by Matthew Gregory Lewis | | | Lewis was (in)famous for his lurid gothic novel The Monk. | | | This text was scanned from The Pictorial Book of Ballads, London: Henry Washbourne, 1847. |
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| | Alibris: Gregory Lewis |
| | Matthew Lewis is best remembered as the author of the sensational Gothic novel The Monk. | | | by Lewis, M. The story of a monk who succumbs to the temptations of a young girl, Lewis's early 19th-century novel was vilified in its time as obscene, blasphemous, and morally corrupt. | | | A young boy ponders the spectrum of moods--how they change from day to day and why it's okay that they do. |
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| | Romanticism On the Net 8 (November 1997) |
| | The year 1996 marked the two hundredth anniversary of the first publication of Matthew Gregory "Monk" Lewis's Gothic supershocker, The Monk, certainly not a major literary landmark but an important date, nonetheless, for students of the Gothic novel. | | | , and the subtle presence of Monk Lewis himself in the characters and events of the novel as explicated by | | | Although the bicentenary of the novel's publication did not attract much notice within the scholarly community, the novel's birth was celebrated by a series of papers delivered in two panels devoted to The Monk at the annual meeting of the Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (MWASECS) convening in Indianapolis in October 1996. |
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| | Lewis, Matthew Gregory - definition of Lewis, Matthew Gregory by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
| | Lewis, Matthew Gregory - definition of Lewis, Matthew Gregory by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. | | | Lewis, Matthew Gregory is not available in the general English dictionary and thesaurus. | | | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. |
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| | New Statesman: Sisters of mercy - Goth Chic: a Connoisseur's Guid to Dark Culture - Book Review |
| | There is Sade himself, who "enjoyed whipping and being whipped as well as anal sex with partners of both genders', and Matthew Lewis, author of The Monk, a story about an abbot seduced by a "demon in human form", which was "something like the American Psycho or Exorcist of its day". | | | Writing in 1800, the Marquis de Sade explained his belief that gothic literature was an effect of the French revolution--in the post-guillotine world, "it was necessary to call upon hell" to arouse the reader's interest. | | | The rest of the book describes the process of "dark culture" moving into the mainstream. |
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