Zaehner, Robert Charles
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Zaehner, Robert Charles (1913–74). Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics at Oxford from 1953. Although a specialist in Persian, from 1953 he became absorbed in the textual traditions of India. He expounded and criticized the Hindu classics ‘from inside’ and correlated them with the Catholicism to which he had been converted in 1936. His major works are
Mysticism,
Sacred and Profane (1957),
At Sundry Times (1958),
Hindu and Muslim Mysticism (1960),
Dawn and Twilight of Zoroastrianism (1961),
Hinduism (1962),
The Bhagavad-Gītā (1969),
Concordant Discord (1970). Towards the end of his life, he became increasingly preoccupied with the problems of rationality and unreason, good and evil, the latter given full rein in his last book
Our Savage God (1974).
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Melmoth affirmed: Maturin's defense of sacred history.(Charles Robert Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in Romanticism; 6/22/2008; ; 700+ words
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The wrong marriage: Maturin and the double-logic of masculinity in the unionist Gothic.(Charles Robert Maturin)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in Romanticism; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Novels of the Anglo-Irish curate Charles Robert Maturin (1780-1824) appears to agree...scholarship also tends to assert that Maturin's work embodies the English...critics see it, nearly all of Maturin's novels borrow their basic...
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"Unprepared for sudden transformations": identity and politics in 'Melmoth the Wanderer.' (The Romantic Novel)
Magazine article from: Studies in the Novel; 6/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...the political implications of Maturin's most famous work. As he is...subversive of that critique. Charles Robert Maturin, one of six children, was born...position at the Post Office; Charles, who relied upon his father for...
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Patrick O'Brian: High wit on the high seas
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 8/28/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...audacious naval captain, and Stephen Maturin, an Irish-Catalan ship's surgeon...both individual and representative. As Maturin's name suggests (it alludes to Rev. Charles Robert Maturin, author of the 1820 novel "Melmoth the...
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James Clarence Mangan, Collected Works: Prose 1832-1839 and Prose 1840-1882.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Melmoth the Wanderer (1820), Charles Robert Maturin's novel about a Wicklow squire...recalled his boyhood fascination with Maturin, even following him in the Dublin...on three occasions. Mangan saw Maturin as a version of himself: 'He...
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BOOKMAKING
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 6/26/1994; ; 700+ words
; Robert Taylor is the retired...editing the Aubrey/Maturin novels; Brian Lavery...state of medicine in Maturin's day, and Nicholas...maintains the Aubrey-Maturin friendship has no...been presented to Charles Baxter for his 1993...
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Eminent writers, editors and critics choose some favorite works of fantasy and science fiction.
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/7/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Regency era -- he would have been Charles Robert Maturin and written one classic novel...their gross-out moments, but Maturin offers more of them and gorier...have any idea how you got there. Maturin died one day shy of Halloween...
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FASCINATING DETOURS IN BIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH.(DAILY BREAK)(Review)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 4/22/2001; 700+ words
; ...intriguing subjects was the Rev. Charles Robert Maturin. Never heard of him? He was...Monsieur Sebastian Melmoth. Maturin, Holmes explains, was an eccentric...indeed. The main character in Maturin's best work, Melmoth the Wanderer...
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Recent books on tape
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 3/29/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...s reading of Hard Times by Charles Dickens (Naxos Tape/CD...Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey and Maturin tales of the high seas. They...unquenchable enthusiasm by Robert Hardy. Pick any title and...cuts the volume for Stephen Maturin's gentle Irish brogue. It...
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From Gothic Italy to Italy as Gothic Archive: Italian Narratives and the Late Romantic Metrical Tale
Magazine article from: Gothic Studies; 5/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...s The Venetian Bracelet (1829); novels such as Charles Robert Maturin's Fatal Revenge; or, the Family of Montorio...Minerva Press; and a whole series of tragedies from Maturin's Bertram (1816) to Percy Shelley's The Cenci...
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Charles Robert Maturin
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Charles Robert Maturin , 1782-1824, Irish author. A minister by vocation, he wrote novels in the manner of the Gothic horror tale of Ann Ward Radcliffe...
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Maturin, Charles Robert
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Maturin, Charles Robert (1782–1824), was one of the principal writers of the ‘ Gothic ’ novel. He published The Fatal...
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