Charles Robert Maturin and the haunting of Irish romantic fiction
By: Christina Morin
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Manchester; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780719085321
Subjects: Gothic revival (Literature); Criticism and interpretation; Romanticism
Description: Working from Derrida's theory on ghosts, traces the continued emergence of an atavistic cultural, social, and political past in the novels of Maturin, revealing the Gothic genre's persistent spectral influence on Irish Romantic fiction.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-201) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: spectres of Maturin, or, the ghosts of Irish Romantic fiction; title: Reviving Maturin : the life and works; title: Communing with the dead : the medium and media of Fatal revenge; title: Conjuring Glorvina : The wold Irish boy and the national tale; title: Witnessing the past : the textual ruins of The Milesian chief; title: Narrating history : the burden of words in Women, or pour et contre; title: Paratextual possession : rereading Melmoth the wanderer; title: Rethinking Scott's revolution : The Albigenses as historical novel; title: Conclusion : Room for more : the future of Maturin research.