Charles Robert Maturin and the haunting of Irish romantic fiction

by Christina Morin

2011

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Working from Derrida's theory on ghosts, traces the continued emergence of an atavistic cultural, social, and political past in the novels of Maturin, revealing the Gothic genre's persistent spectral influence on Irish Romantic fiction.