Author Archive for: ‘Seth Barry Watter’

And lightning blinded all, however strong —Hesiod, Theogony, trans. Dorothea Wender When evil comes, it comes at an angle: this is the sense evoked by Charlotte Dacre in Zofloya (1806). In its most climactic passages the scenery shifts from a Venetian noble’s castle to the mountain range behind it. Victoria de Loredani, having committed two murders, is now in the …