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The New Monk (1798) is a novel by by R. S. Esq..

After the controversy surrounding Matthew Lewis’ The Monk Minerva Press released The New Monk as a supposed indictment of a wholly immoral book. It features the sadistic Mrs. Rod whose boarding school for young women becomes a torture chamber equipped with its own “flogging-room.” Ironically, The New Monk wound up increasing the level of cruelty but as a parody of the genre it illuminates the link between sadism and the Gothic novel.




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