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FURTHER READING

Criticism

Axton, William F. Introduction to Melmoth the Wanderer, by Charles Robert Maturin, pp. vii-xviii. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1961.

Asserts that Maturin's primary intent in Melmoth is to expose the corruption engendered by religious authoritarianism, and declares that Melmoth is "the highest artistic achievement" of the Gothic genre because in it "the Gothic mummery of the horror novel was brought to serve the uses of a profoundly tragic religious parable."

Birkhead, Edith. "The Novel of Terror: Lewis and Maturin." In The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance, pp. 63-93. London: Constable & Company Ltd., 1921.

Regarded as an important twentieth-century study of the Gothic novel. Focuses on Maturin's Fatal Revenge and Melmoth the Wanderer, noting Maturin's indebtedness to earlier Gothic novelists, but...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Primary Sources
   1. Charles Robert Maturin (Story Date 1825)
4. General Commentary
   1. Robert Lougy (Essay Date 1975)
5. Title Commentary
   1. Melmoth the Wanderer
6. Further Reading