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Genre:
"Prose Fiction"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Work title:
"The Monk: A Romance"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"French Revolution"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Romantic"
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Metaphor Category:
"Light"
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Date: 1796
"He pronounced the most severe sentences upon offenders, which the moment after compassion induced him to mitigate: he undertook the most daring enterprizes, which the fear of their consequences soon obliged him to abandon: his inborn genius darted a brilliant light upon subjects the most obscure...
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)