Melmoth the Wanderer (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Charles Robert Maturin
- First Published: 1820
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Gothic
- Time of Work: Early nineteenth century
- Genres: Long fiction, Gothic fiction, Magical and occult fantasy
- Subjects: Supernatural, Nineteenth century, Betrayal, Ghosts or apparitions, Fear, Eighteenth century, Seventeenth century, Good and evil, Faustian bargains, Fratricide, parricide, or filicide, Shipwrecks, Devils or demons, Ireland or Irish people, Spain or Spanish people
- Locales: Spain, London, England, Ireland
Places Discussed
*Spain. Charles Robert Maturin’s Spain is typically gothic, a bleak landscape of rough hillsides and poor and superstitious inhabitants lorded over by proud noblemen and hypocritical clergy. Several characters in the novel, including the titular character, traverse Spain; an English traveler tours the monasteries in Spain during the seventeenth century; Melmoth himself travels throughout Spain pursuing his unholy schemes; and a young Spanish lord travels throughout Spain trying to escape from incarceration in a monastery and from the dungeons of the...
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