"Unprepared for sudden transformations": identity and politics in 'Melmoth the Wanderer.' (The Romantic Novel)

From: Studies in the Novel | Date: June 22, 1994| Author: | Copyright information

Charles Robert Maturin's Gothic novel 'Melmoth the Wanderer' can be read as a political allegory of Civil War England, contemporary Ireland, the Spanish Inquisition and life on an Indian island. The layered narrative, which starts unconventionally, uses the mystique associated with the Orient in its latter half. Maturin, like his contemporary Sydney Owenson, uses embedded narratives to critique colonialism. Maturin's complex technique includes distortions of chronology and history. Maturin's political stance, as it emerges through such works, would have been unpopular in his time.

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