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Article: Matthew Lewis and the gothic horror of obsessional neurosis.(Viewpoint essay)
- Article from:
- Studies in the Humanities
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
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Initially, it may seem that the only connection between Tony Shalhoub's hit USA Television Network program Monk and the Gothic is reducible to the fact that the television show shares it title with Matthew Lewis's infamous 1794 Gothic novel. However, on a second examination of the detective series, one may notice that the actor who plays Captain Leland Stottlemeyer, Ted Levine, is the same actor who in The Silence of the Lambs played Buffalo Bill, that most horrific of all gothic villains. But, on a much deeper level, there exists, oddly enough, a connection between Shalhoub's titular character's particular psychopathology--obsessional neurosis--and the very narrative ...
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