[130] London Magazine 1821, vol. III p. 514.

[131] Planche, p. 54.

[132] Gunnar Bjurman, Edgar Allan Poe. En litteraturhistorisk studie, Lund 1916, pp. 207-208.

[133] Monthly Review 1821, vol. 94 p. 81.

[134] E. A. Baker, Introduction to The Monk of M. G. Lewis, London 1907, p. VIII.

[135] Melmoth the Wanderer 1892, p. LIX.

[136] Cardonneau is the name of the atheistic philosopher in Women.

[137] Müller, p. 91.

[138] The bitter irony with which the state of Europe is described in Melmoth’s discourse rather recalls also certain passages in Gulliver’s Travels (part II ch. VI; part IV ch. V-VII).

[139] Walter Raleigh, The English Novel, London 1907 (fifth ed.), p. 237.