Within the specifics of the Gothic genre, Matthew Lewis' The Monk stands in sharp contrast to the more popular novels of Ann Radcliffe. The second one, embodied by Lewis, was influenced by the German Shauer-Romantik (horrorRomantic), labeled "horror-Gothic" and subject to much controversy, for even though it was regarded as more daring, innovative, and more "masculine" (Watt 84, 87), it also acquired a reputation for being immoral and scandalous, obscene and perfidious, seditious and revolutionary (McEvoy vii-xi). The first one established by Radcliffe, which was molded to popular favor, labeled "terror-Gothic" and/or "loyalist," considered "feminine," and drew its inspiration from French sensationalism and Elizabethan Dramatists. It is widely recognized that there are two stages in the development of the Gothic.
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