Charlotte Dacre ["Rosa Matilda"]

(1782-1842)

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Internet Resources: The Charlotte Dacre Page (Maintained by Corvey Women Writers on the Web, Sheffield Hallam University, UK): <http://www2.shu.ac.uk/corvey/cw3/Au-thorPage.cfm?Author=CD1>.

BURLEY, Stephanie. "The Death of Zofloya: or, The Moor as Epistemological Limit." (pp. 197-211) in The Gothic Other: Racial and Social Constructions in the Literary Imagination, eds. Ruth Bienstock Anolik, Douglas L. Howard. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2004.

CRACUIN, Adriana. “Introduction” (pp. 9-32). To Zofloya, or the Moor by Charlotte Dacre. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 1997.

CRACUIN, Adriana.  “‘I Hasten to be Disembodied’: Charlotte Dacre, the Demon Lover, and Representations of the Body.” European Romantic Review 6 (1995): 75-97. Studies the volatile gender features of Zofloya, especially the growing masculinzation  of Victoria, to show how the novel displays an assertion of the bodily self against its culturally determined identity.

CRACUIN, Adriana.  “Charlotte Dacre” (pp. 188-89). In Encyclopedia of British Women Writers, eds. Paul Schlueter and Jane Schlueter. New York: Garland, 1997.

DUNN, James A. “Charlotte Dacre and the Feminization of Violence.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 53 (19-98): 307-27. 

HOEVELER, Diane Long. “Charlotte Dacre’s Zo-floya: A Case Study in Miscegenation as Sexual and Racial Nausea.” European Romantic Review 7 (1997): 411-22.

HOEVELER, Diane Long. "Charlotte Dacre's Zofloya: The Gothic Demonization of the Jew" (165-78). In The Jews and British Romanticism: Politics, Religion, Culture, ed. Sheila A. Spector. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2005.

JONES, Ann H. “Chapter Eight: Charlotte Dacre” (pp. 224-49). In Ideas and Innovations: Best Sellers of Jane Austen’s Age. New York: AMS Press, 1986.

LUTZ, Courtney Leigh. “‘Consider not this as a romance merely’: The Feminine in Charlotte Dacre’s Zofloya.” Master’s Thesis, Appalachian State University, 1999.

MAGNIER, Mireille. “Zofloya et Le Moine.” In Autour de l‘idée de nature: Histoire des idées et civilisation: Pedgogie et divers. [GGII: 0635].

MELLOR, Anne K. “Interrracial Sexual Desire in Charlotte Dacre’s Zofloya.” European Romantic Review 13 (2002): 169-73.

MICHASIW, Kim. “Introduction” (pp. ix-xlii). To Zofloya, or the Moor. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

MICHASIW, Kim. “Charlotte Dacre’s Postcolonial Moor.” (pp. 35-55). In Empire and the Gothic: The Politics of Genre, eds. Andrew Smith and William Hughes. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, U.K.: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2003.

SUMMERS, Montague. “Byron’s Lovely Rosa.” In Essays in Petto. [GGI: 1032].

SUMMERS, Montague.  “Introduction.” To Zofloya; or, The Moor. [GGI: 1033].

THOMSON, Douglass H. “Charlotte Dacre [Rosa Matilda]” (pp. 99-103). In Gothic Writers:A Critical and Bibliographical Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.

VARMA, Devendra P. “Introduction.” To The Confessions of the Nun of St. Omer. [GGI: 1034].

VARMA, Devendra P.  “Introduction.” To Zofloya, or the Moor. A Romance of the Fifteenth Century. [GGI: 1035].

VARMA, Devendra P.  “Introduction.” To The Passions. [GGI: 1036].

VARMA, Devendra P.  “Introduction.” To The Libertine. [GGI: 1037].

WILSON, Lisa. “Female Pseudonymity and the Romantic Age of Personality: The Career of Charlotte King/ Rosa Matilda/Charlotte Dacre.” European Romantic Review 9 (1998): 393-420.