Morin Charles Robert Maturin and the haunting of Irish romantic Fiction

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5261-2555-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Web PDF, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

A clear, theoretically-grounded, chronological study of Maturin’s six novels. A new critical paradigm by which to view and read Irish Romantic fiction. Offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of Maturin and his fiction available today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Morin, Christina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Chronology of Maturin’s life
Introduction: Spectres of Maturin; or, the ghosts of Irish Romantic fiction
1. Reviving Maturin: the life and works
2. Communing with the dead: the medium and media of Fatal revenge
3. Conjuring Glorvina: The wild Irish boy and the national tale
4. Witnessing the past: the textual ruins of The Milesian chief
5. Narrating history: the burden of words in Women; or pour et contre
6. Paratextual possession: re-reading Melmoth the wanderer
7. Re-thinking Scott’s revolution: The Albigenses as historical novel
Conclusion: Room for more: the future for Maturin research
Select bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Morin Christina:
Christina Morin is an Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) postdoctoral research fellow at Trinity College Dublin, where she is working on a project titled ‘The Gothic Novel in Ireland, 1760-1830’Christina Morin is an Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) postdoctoral research fellow at Trinity College Dublin, where she is working on a project titled ‘The Gothic Novel in Ireland, 1760-1830’.