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    The age of darkness: Gothic discourse and its reflections of discontent in Matthew Lewis's The Monk
    (2005) İnal, Bahar
    Matthew Lewis is a highly imaginative and creative writer in his depictions of extraordinary, rebellious, and demonic characters, who remain outside the mainstream of the eighteenth century novel. In a style of authentic narrative, he makes a chain of terror and violence, intended to penetrate deeply into the moral and social atmosphere of the age. The Monk, one of the masterpieces of English Gothic literature, exerts a considerable influence over the writings of the novelists like Charles Dickens, the Bronte sisters, Sir Walter Scott, and so on. The elements of this influence - the criminal monk, terror and violence, incest and brutal sexuality, the Wandering Jew and the Bleeding Nun - have been used by various Gothic writers including Ann Radcliffe and Charles Robert Maturin. Matthew Lewis indicts the codes and norms of The Age of Reason in The Monk. He subverts the world-view of Newton and Descartes, for whom each element in nature has a fixed place and all models of social and moral action are derived from the method of reason. To reveal the failure of the social system of the Enlightenment, Lewis creates a pseudo- scientific atmosphere in which black magic, exorcism, and enchantment (they are also representative of a pseudo-medieval atmosphere) take the place of rationalism and secularism of the dominant culture. Asserting that man is irredeemably lost in the nightmarish world of mathematical rules and formulas, the spiritual health and integrity of the individual can only be achieved through searching for a release from the darkness of Enlightenment sociability and rationality.