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Faust
SYNDY M. CONGER (ESSAY DATE 1977)
SOURCE: Conger, Syndy M. "An Analysis of The Monk and Its German Sources." In Matthew G. Lewis, Charles Robert Maturin and the Germans: An Interpretive Study of the Influence of German Literature on Two Gothic Novels, pp. 12-42. Salzburg: Institut fur Englische Sprache unde Literatur, Universitat Salzburg, 1977.
In the following excerpt, Conger studies the influence of Goethe's Faust on Matthew Gregory Lewis's The Monk.
The Monk and Goethe's Faust
Various critics have noticed the Faust-like characteristics of Lewis's Ambrosio, but no one has gone beyond jotting down basic similarities between the two, nor has anyone even tried to establish whether The Monk stands more indebted to Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus or Johann Goethe's Faust.1 To students...
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