The Quaker City or the Monks of Monk Hall

by Lippard, George

• ISBN13: 9780870239717
• ISBN10: 0870239716
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-07-01
• Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr

Summary

"One of the most interesting and influential of 19th-century American novels. Long out of print [it] is a colorful, challenging, lubricious extravaganza in which passionate social concern and feverish Gothic excess somehow vigorously coexist". -- Kirkus Reviews

Author Biography

David S. Reynolds is a Professor of English at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, CUNY.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vii
Notes	p. xlii
Preface to This Edition	p. 1
The Origin and Object of This Book	p. 3
Mary, the Merchant's Daughter	p. 5
The Wager in the Oyster-Cellar	p. 5
Mary, the Merchant's Daughter	p. 17
Byrnewood and Lorrimer	p. 22
The Astrologer	p. 26
Dora Livingstone	p. 34
Monk-Hall	p. 46
The Monks of Monk Hall	p. 50
Mother Nancy and Long-Haired Bess	p. 76
The Bride	p. 83
The Bridal	p. 94
Devil-Bug	p. 105
The Tower Room	p. 113
The Crime Without A Name	p. 125
The Guilty Wife	p. 137
The Dishonor	p. 144
Fitz-Cowles at Home	p. 151
The Forger	p. 151
Fitz-Cowles and His Creditors	p. 168
The Death Warrant	p. 174
Dora Livingstone at Home	p. 180
The Gold Watch	p. 196
The Poison of Catharine De Medicis	p. 210
The Council of War	p. 216
Major Rappahannock Mulhill	p. 218
The Dead-Vault of Monk-Hall	p. 220
The Ghost Room	p. 232
Devil-Bug in the Ghost-Room	p. 238
Luke Harvey in the Ghost-Room	p. 245
Mabel	p. 245
Dora and Luke	p. 249
The Free Believers and True Repenters	p. 260
Strange Visitors in Monk-Hall	p. 272
Dora and Fitz-Cowles	p. 281
Devil-Bug in Love	p. 288
Parson Pyne and His Daughter	p. 291
The Pit of Monk-Hall	p. 299
Patent-Gospel Grace	p. 319
Parson Pyne Has A Good Laugh to Himself	p. 326
The Savage Alone with the Maiden	p. 332
The Flight from Monk-Hall	p. 335
The Gold Which Devil-Bug Won	p. 353
Devil-Bug's Dream	p. 370
God Is Just	p. 395
"Ravoni the Sorcerer	p. 395
The Curse of the Drugged Potion	p. 417
"Ravoni A God!"	p. 422
The Priestess of Ravoni	p. 426
The Dissecting Room	p. 435
The First Miracle of the New Faith	p. 445
Ravoni and Mabel	p. 453
The Death of the White Owl	p. 465
The Death-Angels	p. 475
The Outcasts of the Quaker City	p. 476
The Oak Chamber of Hawkewood Dora Livingstone Gains the Coronet, for Which She Perilled Her Soul	p. 491
Hurrah for the Gallows!	p. 504
The Chapel of Jesus	p. 512
Christmas Eve	p. 539
Home Once More	p. 540
The Personage	p. 548
Monk-Hall Once More	p. 554
The Meeting of the Brother and the Libertine	p. 558
Sunset on Christmas Eve	p. 564
Notes to the Text	p. 577
Bibliography	p. 579
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