CharlesRobert Maturin

 (1782-1824)

 

The Wandering Jew by Gustave Doré

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ASTLE, Richard. "Melmoth the Wanderer" In Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature. 0553

AXTON, William F. Introduction to Melmoth the Wanderer. 0866

________. "Charles Robert Maturin" In Supernatural Fiction Writers. 0554

BALDICK, Chris. "Introduction" to Melmoth the Wanderer, Ed. Douglas Grant. New York: Oxford UP, 1998: vii-xix. Believes that this late Gothic novel is in the line of Godwinian doctrinaire fiction, althought "to attack Catholicism was not for Maturin, as it was for Lewis in his prurient Gothic novel The Monk (1796), an antiquarian fancy-dress frolic." To the detriment of the novel's effectiveness, "Maturin has overloaded the character [of the wanderer] with several functions working at cross-purposes." Parts company with the normal view of the novel as the greatest of the Gothics to expose its mediocrities and structural flaws.

BLEILER, E. F. Introduction to The Wild Irish Boy. 0868

BOSTROM, Irene. "The Novel and Catholic Emancipation." 0869

BUCHAN, A. M. "Maturin's Birthday." 0870

CHADOURNE, Marc. "Melmoth et pacte infernal." 0871

CLAPTON, G. T. "Balzac, Baudelaire, and Maturin." 0555

CLYNE, Anthony. "Maturin (1782-1824)." 0556

COOK, Davidson. "Maturin MSS at Abbotsford." 0557

CORRADI, Susanna. "Il Silenzio di Melmoth: Lettura analitica del testo ' Melmoth the Wanderer ' di Charles Robert Maturin." 0558

COUGHLAN, Patricia A. "The Recycling of Melmoth: ' A Very German Story ' " In Literary Interrelations: Ireland, England, and the World. 0559

COWLEY, Julian. Introduction to The Fatal Revenge: or, The Family of Montorio; A Romance by Charles Robert Maturin. Alan Sutton: Stroud, 1994.

________. " ' Fold Over Fold, Inveterately Convolv'd ': Aspects of Mangan's Intertexuality" In Anglo-Irish and Irish Literature: Aspects of Language and Culture. 0560

D'AMICO, Diane. "Charles Robert Maturin" In Critical Survey of Long Fiction. 0561

________. "Feeling and Conception of Character in the Novels of Charles Robert Maturin." 0562

DANSKY, Richard. "The Wanderer and the Scribbler: Maturin, Scott, and Melmoth the Wanderer." Studies in Weird Fiction 21 (1997): 2-10.

DAWSON, Leven M. "Melmoth the Wanderer: Paradox and the Gothic Novel." 0876

DEMATA, Massimiliano. "L'Orrore di Melmoth the Wanderer tra realta e pazzia." Questione Romantica Rivista Interdisciplinare di Studi Romantici 3-4 (1997): 25-34.

________. "Drama of Publishing: A 'Lost' Epilogue to Maturin's Bertram?" Gothic Studies 3:2 (2001): 170-180. Discusses the possibility of a new reading of Charles Maturin's Bertram; or, The Castle of St. Aldobrand on the basis of a hitherto ignored manuscript, `Epilogue' to the drama found in the archives of publisher John Murray. Adds new material to the tormented publishing history of this work and sheds light on the ambiguous and shifting moral and political interpretations given by both Maturin and his audience to one of the most famous Gothic dramas.

DEMIROVIC, Hamdija. "Okretja zavrtnja: Bkica iz psihologije ukasa u ' Melmoth the Wanderer ' Charlesa Maturina." 0563

DE TERNANT, Andrew. "Maturin's ' Bertram.' 0564

DUNSFORD, Cathie Joy. "Painting Life in Extremes. Charles Robert Maturin and the Gothic Genre." 0565

DJOURATCHKOVITCH, Amélie. "La part du diable ou les démons de l'ironie: Lecture de Melmoth ou l'homme errant de Maturin" In Le Diable, Ed. Alain Niderst. Université de Rouen: Nizet, 1998: 157-167. [The place of the devil or the demons of irony: Reading of Melmoth or Maturin's wandering man]

DURKAN, Michael. "A Checklist of Works by Charles Robert Maturin." 0878

EGGENSCHWILER, David. "Melmoth the Wanderer: Gothic on Gothic." 0879

EHLERS, Leigh A. "The ' Incommunicable Condition ' of Melmoth." 0880

FERNSEMER, Oscar F. W. Die Dramatischen werke Charles Robert Maturins, mit einer kurzen lebensbeschreibung des dichters. 0881

FERRARI, R. '' ' From Region to Region ': Gothic Spaces in ' Melmoth the Wanderer ' by Charles R. Mathurin [sic" Rivista di Letterature Moderne e Comparate 52:4 (1999): 327-350.

FIEROBE, Claude. "L'Univers fantastique de Melmoth the Wanderer" In La Raison et l'imaginaire. Actes du congrés de Rennes. 0882

________. "France in the Novels of Charles Robert Maturin." 0883

________. Charles Robert Maturin (1780-1824); L'Homme et l'oeuvre. 0884

________. "À propos de Maturin: Ni vrai ni faux, mais fantastique." 0885

________. "Quelques images de la nature irlandais dans l'oeuvre de C. R. Maturin" In Autour de l'ideé de nature: Histoire des ideés et civilisation: Pédagogie et divers. 0566

________. "Les Derniers feux ' gothiques ' en angleterre." 0567

________. "C. R. Maturin: Nationalisme et fantastique." 0568

________. "Maturin, Charles Robert (1780-1824)" In A Handbook to English Romanticism, Eds. Jean Raimond, J.R. Watson. New York: St. Martin's, 1992: 175-177.

________. "Charles Robert Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer." In Le Roman noir anglais dit "gothique", Ed. Max Duperray. Paris: Ellipses, 2000: 145-154. Connects Maturin's sense of Gothic with such modern existential writers as Samuel Beckett, Jean Paul Sartre, and Abert Camus, whose novel L'Étranger [The Stranger] resembles Melmoth the Wanderer. " The Wanderer "est ainsi le prototype du rebelle moderne, souvent pathétique dont Beckett (Murphy, 1938), Sartre (La Nausée, 1938), ou encore Camus (L'Étranger, 1942) fixeront l'image dérisoire." [is also the prototype of the modern rebel, whose often pathetic image will yet be mockingly fixed on Beckett's Murphy, Sartre's Nausea, and Camus's The Stranger].

FOWLER, Kathleen. "Hieroglyphics in Fire: Melmoth the Wanderer." 0569

GRANT, Douglas. Introduction to Melmoth the Wanderer. 0888

GRIGORESCU, Dan. Introduction to Melmoth Ratacitorul. 0570

HAMMOND, Muriel E. "C. R. Maturin and Melmoth the Wanderer." 0889

HARRIS, John Bernhard. "Charles Robert Maturin: A Study." 0890

________. Charles Robert Maturin: The Forgotten Imitator. 0891

HAYTER, Alethea. Introduction to Melmoth the Wanderer. 0893

HENDERSON, Peter Mills. "A Nut Between Two Blades: The Novels of Charles Robert Maturin." 0894

________. A Nut Between Two Blades: The Novels of Charles Robert Maturin. 0895

HENNELLY, Mark M. Jr. "Melmoth the Wanderer and Gothic Existentialism." 0896

HERVOUET-FARRAR, Isabelle. "Structure, desir et plaisir dans Fatal Revenge de Maturin." Annales du Monde Anglophone 8 (1998): 33-50. [Structure, desire and pleasure in Maturin's Fatal Revenge]

HINCK, Henry W. "Three Studies on Charles Robert Maturin." 0897

________. Three Studies on Charles Robert Maturin. 0898

IDMAN, Niilo. Charles Robert Maturin, His Life and Works. 0900

JONES, Linda B. " ' The Terrors of a Guilty Sleep ' : Freud's Wolf Man and Dreams of Castration in Melmoth the Wanderer." Gothic Studies 2:1 (2000): 50-60. Analyzes several of the dreams in the novel through the psychoanalytic lens of one of Freud's most famous case studies, the Wolf Man, "From the History of an Infantile Neurosis." The theme of the fear of the father, "express[es] a conflict of castration anxieties which underpins the uncanny sense of loss permeating the text." Argues that castration anxieties structures the novel's meaning--fear of loss/obedience to the father-- and "shifts the focus of Maturin's religious scheme."

KENNEDY, Veronica M. S. "Myth and the Gothic Dream: C. R. Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer." 0901

KILROY, James F. "Two Novelists of Terror: Maturin and Le Fanu" In Anglo-Irish Literature: A Review of Research. 0571

KOSOK, Heinz. "Charles Robert Maturin: Melmoth the Wanderer" In Der Englischen roman im 19. jahrhundert: Interpretationen. 0902

________. "Charles Robert Maturin and Colonialism" In Literary Inter-Relations, ed. Mary Massoud. Cross, UK; Smythe, 1996: 228-234.

________. "The Colonial Experience in the Works of Charles Robert Maturin." Anglia: Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie 117:3 (1999): 353.

KRAMER, Dale. Charles Robert Maturin. 0903

________. Introduction to The Albigenses: A Romance. 0904

KULLMANN, Thomas. "Nature and Psychology in Melmoth the Wanderer and Wuthering Heights" In Exhibited by Candlelight: Sources and Developments in the Gothic Tradition, Eds. Valeria Tinkler Viviani, Peter Davidson, Jane Stevenson Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995: 99-106. Compares and contrasts meteorological effects and their purposes in the two novels. "Like Charles Robert Maturin in Melmoth the Wanderer, Emily Brontë contrives to explore certain limits of experience with the help of the analogy of violent or peaceful forms of nature."

LANONE, Catherine. “Verging on the Gothic: Melmoth’s journey to France” In European Gothic: A Spirited Exchange 1760-1960, Ed. Avril Horner. Manchester & New York: Manchester University Press, 2002: 71-83.

LAYMAN, Beverley J. Charles Robert Maturin and the Romance of Terror. 0905

LEERSSEN, J. Th. "Fiction Poetics and Cultural Stereotype: Local Colour in Scott, Morgan and Maturin." Modern Language Review 86:2 (1991): 273-84.

LÉVY, Maurice. Introduction to The Fatal Revenge; or, The Family of Montorio. 0906

LEW, Joseph. "'Unprepared for Sudden Transformations': Identity and Politics in Melmoth the Wanderer." Studies in the Novel, 26 (1994): 173-95.

LE YAOUANC, Moise. "Melmoth et les romans de jeune Balzac" In Balzac and the Nineteenth Century: Studies in French Literature Presented to Herbert J. Hunt by Pupils, Colleagues, and Friends. 0907

LLOYD, Rosemary. "Melmoth the Wanderer: The Code of Romanticism" In Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Valery: New Essays in Honour of Lloyd Austin. 0572

LOUGY, Robert E. Charles Robert Maturin. 0908

LOVELL, Ernest J. Jr. "Byron's ' The Island ' and Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer." 0909

LOZES, Jean. "Aspects du fantastique anglo-irlandais chez Charles Robert Maturin, Gerald Griffin, William Carleton et Sheridan Le Fanu." In Littératures, Toulouse, France, 26 (1992): 25-40. [Aspects of Anglo-Irish fantastic in the works of Charles Robert Maturin, Gerald Griffin, William Carleton and Sheridan Le Fanu

MAGNIER, Mireille. "Le Moine Schemoli et la Familie Montorio." 0573

MALET-DAGRÉOU, Cécile. "Maturin, Charles Robert (1780-1824)" In The Handbook to Gothic Literature, Ed. Marie Mulvey-Roberts. New York: New York University Press, 1998: 157-160.

MAXWELL, Herbert. "Maturin and Scott." 0574

MAYOUX, Jean-Jacques. "Le Grand création satanique du Réverend Maturin." 0911

MENASCÉ, Esther. "Il Tragico errare de Faust Melmoth." 0575

MILLER, Robin Feuer. "The Metaphysical Novel and the Evocation of Anxiety: Melmoth the Wanderer and The Brothers Karamazov, a Case Study" In Russianness: Studies on a Nation's Identity. 0576

MONROE, Judson T. "Tragedy in the Novels of Reverend Charles Robert Maturin." 0913

________. Tragedy in the Novels of Reverend Charles Robert Maturin. 0914

MORGAN, Chris. "MATURIN, Charles R(obert)" In St. James Guide to Horror, Gothic, & Ghost Writers, Ed. David Pringle. Detroit, New York, Toronto, London: St. James Press, 1998: 396-397.

MOYNAHAN, Julian. "The Politics of Anglo-Irish Gothic: Maturin, Le Fanu and ' The Return of the Oppressed ' " In Studies in Anglo-Irish Literature. 0577

MUIR, Stuart. "The Grotesque in First Person Narration: Psychoanalysis and Narratology." 0578

MÜLLER, W. Charles Robert Maturins romane 'The Fatal Revenge ' and ' Melmoth the Wanderer,' ein beitrag zur Gothic romance. 0915

NIKOLOPOULOU, Anastasia. "Medievalism and Historicity in the English Gothic Melodrama: Maturin's Bertram; or, The Castle of St. Aldobrand." Poetica: An International Journal of Linguistic Literary Studies 39-40 (1994): 139-153. Explores Gothic conventions in Maturin's Gothic play.

NULL, Jack. "Structure and Theme in Melmoth the Wanderer." 0916

O'HARA, James. "Maturin and the Novel of Terror." 0579

O'NEILL, Patrick. "Image and Reception: The German Fortunes of Maria Edgeworth, Lady Morgan, Thomas Moore, and Charles Robert Maturin." 0917

PIPER, H. W. & Norman JEFFARES. "Maturin the Innovator." 0919

PUNTER, David. "Ceremonial Gothic" In Spectral Readings: Towards a Gothic Geography, Eds. Glennis BYRON, David PUNTER. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999: 37-53. Offers Lacanian readings of Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer, William Gibson's Neuromancer, and other works. Instead of focusing on the Gothic's moments of transgression, tests the hypothesis by seeing the Gothic through its moments of stabilization. "This logic would focus on the curious, essential co-necessity of parasite and host, and therefore on the moment at which we can no longer clearly see what is the bearer and what is being borne."

RATCHFORD, Fannie E. & William H. MC CARTHY. The Correspondence of Sir Walter Scott and Charles Robert Maturin, With a Few Allied Letters. 0922

ROSI, Ivana. "La ' nonpareille des Florides ': Chateaubriand, Villiers e le meraviglie del ' Nuovo Mondo,' " Rivisti di Letterature Moderne e Comparate 49:3 (1996): 311-334. Compares the paradise idyll of "The Tale of the Indian" in Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer to Chateaubriand's Atala.

RUFF, Marcel A. "Maturin et les romantiques françaises" In Bertram; ou, le château de St. Aldobrand. 0924

SAGE, Victor. "Irish Gothic: C. R. Maturin and J. S. LeFanu" In A Companion to the Gothic, Ed. David Punter. Oxford, UK & Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2000: 81-93. Discusses the interrelationship of "two Huguenot Protestant writers both with family connections in the Irish church, both curiously learned, self-conscious writers, absorbed by their Calvinist heritage, and its relation to aesthetics, psychology, and politics, and both with an irresistible attraction to effects of terror and horror." Also discusses and accounts for the change in Maturin's Gothicism after he began to correspond with Sir Walter Scott.

SCHOLTEN, Willem. Charles Robert Maturin: The Terror Novelist. 0925

SCOTT, Shirley S. C. "Myths of Consciousness in the Novels of Charles Maturin." 0926

________. Myths of Consciousness in the Novels of Charles Maturin. 0927

SHIPPS, Anthony W. "Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer." 0580

________. "Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer." 0581

________. "Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer." 0582

SMITH, Amy Elizabeth. "Experimentation and Horrid Curiosity, in Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer." English Studies: A Journal of EnglishLanguage and Literature 74:6 (1993): 524-35.

STOTT, G. St. John. "The Structure of Melmoth the Wanderer." 0583

TRAUTWEIN, Wolfgang. Erlesene angst: Schauerliteratur um 18. und 19. jahrhundert: Systematischer aufriss: Untersuchen zu Bürger, Maturin, Hoffmann, Poe, und Maupassant. 0930

TREMAYNE, Peter. "Charles Robert Maturin" In Irish Masters of Fantasy. 0931

TROTT, Nicola. Introduction to "The Tale of the Spaniard" from Melmoth the Wanderer In Gothic Novels: An Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1997: [data

UNSIGNED. "Maturin and the Novel of Terror." 0910

VOLLER, Jack G. "Charles Robert Maturin." In Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide , Eds. Douglass H. Thomson, Jack G. Voller, Frederick S. Frank. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002: 283-289.

VUILLEMIN, Marie-Christine. "Melmoth the Wanderer: An English Representation of Faust." 0584

WATKINS, Daniel P. " ' Tenants of a Blasted World ': Historical Imagination in Charles Maturin's Bertram." 0585

ZEENDER, Marie-Noelle. "Le Miroir de Maturin, de Le Fanu, de Wilde, et de Stoker." 0586