 During the Romantic Period, the Gothic novel, which was primarily a genre developed in Protestant countries, frequently associated Catholicism with terror and repression.This vision of the Spanish Inquisition appears in, among other works, "The Monk" (1796) by Matthew Gregory Lewis (set in Madrid during the Inquisition, but can be seen as commenting on the French Revolution and the Terror); "Melmoth the Wanderer" (1820) by Charles Robert Maturin and "The Manuscript Found in Saragossa" by Polish author Jan Potocki.The literature of the 19th century tends to focus on the element of torture employed by the Inquisition.