Zofloya: Or the Moor - Charlotte Dacre

Unleashed academics, tutors, and ornamental hermits Alice and Rowan do a deep dive into dark hero archetypes on a semi-weekly basis.&nbsp; This episode they cover Charlotte Dacre's Zofloya: Or the Moor (1806) and discuss why it has been so difficult to define the novel's unique protagonist. Is she a femme fatale, a gothic heroine, or an attempt to subvert the gothic genre?&nbsp; Sources:&nbsp; Brewster, Glen. "Monstrous Philosophy: Charlotte Dacre’s Zofloya, or the Moor and John Milton’s Paradise Lost." Literature Compass 8, no. 9 (2011): 609-19.&nbsp; Clery, E. J. Women’s Gothic: From Clara Reeve to Mary Shelley. Devon, England: Northcote House, 2000.&nbsp; Craciun, Adriana. ""I Hasten to Be Disembodied": Charlotte Dacre, the Demon Lover, and Representations of the Body." European Romantic Review 6, no. 1 (1996): 75-97.&nbsp; Craciun, Adriana, James Chandler, and Marilyn Butler, eds. Fatal Women of Romanticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.&nbsp; Dacre, Charlotte. Zofloya: Or the Moor. Edited by Kim Michasiw. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.&nbsp; ———. Zofloya: Or the Moor. Edited by Adriana Craciun. Ontario: Broadview Press, 2006.&nbsp; Davison, Carol. "Getting Their Knickers in a Twist: Contesting the ‘Female Gothic’ in Charlotte Dacre's Zofloya." Gothic Studies 11, no. 1 (2009): 32-45.&nbsp; Dunn, Jame. "Charlotte Dacre and the Feminization of Violence." Nineteenth-Century Literature 53, no. 3 (1998): 307-27.&nbsp; Faxneld, Per. "Woman Liberated by the Devil in Four Gothic Novels: William Beckford’s &nbsp; Vathek (1786), Matthew Lewis’ the Monk (1796), Charlotte Dacre’s Zofloya or the Moor (1806) and Charles Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer (1820)." In Grotesque Femininities: Evil, Women and the Feminine, edited by Maria Barrett. Oxford:Interdisciplinary Press, 2010.&nbsp; Gentile, Kathy. "Sublime Drag: Supernatural Masculinity in Gothic Fiction." Gothic Studies 11, no. 1 (2009): 16-31.&nbsp; Gilbert, Sandra, and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. 2nd ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.&nbsp; Jones, Anne H. "Charlotte Dacre." In Ideas and Innovations: Best Sellers of JaneAusten's Age. New York: AMS Press, 1986.&nbsp; Mellor, Anne K. Romanticism and Gender. New York: Routledge, 1993.&nbsp; <p style="margin-left:36