In The Monk, Matthew Lewis used the Gothic form first to convey the temptation to mob violence before illuminating its horrors.
Caroline Breashears
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Caroline Breashears.
Caroline Breashears is Professor of English at St. Lawrence University. She is the author of Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing and the "Scandalous Memoir" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).