The Bride of Lammermoor | Literary Precedents
The whole collection of Gothic novels (the "tales of terror") that came out in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries could be taken as the models for this dark novel, but it exceeds all of them in substance, realism, and horrific effect. From Mrs. Radcliffe's Romance of the Forest (rather tame compared with The Bride of Lammermoor) to Matthew "Monk" Lewis' The Monk (quite unrealistic when compared to Scott's novel) to William Beckford's Vathek (an outlandish performance, especially in relation to Sir Walter's believable story), the Gothic Novel...
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