textual authority, propelled, in part, by capitulation to sexual desires, governed by nefarious intervention, the manner by which egregious schemes transpire, a patriarchal authority relegated by requisite friendship: “Let us forget the distinctions of sex, despise the world’s prejudices, and only consider each other as Brother and Friend. Live then! Oh! Live for me!”Continue reading “The Latitudes of Heterosocial Motility within Homosexual Desire in Matthew Lewis’s The Monk*”