The debate over extending full civil rights to British and Irish Catholics not only preoccupied
British politics but also informed the romantic period's most prominent literary works. This …

This article traces Irish responses to the crisis of the Hispanic monarchy (1808–25) and the
struggle for sovereignty in Spanish America, comparing reactions in Ireland to those of the …

Dealing with an Irish and a Spanish playwright and two dramas staged thirteen years apart
in London and Paris respectively, this essay experiments with a comparative reading of …

More than a century later, in WB Yeats's Purgatory (1938), a boy and an old man stand
before their ancestral house on a moonlit night, when a figure appears in the window–the …

Dealing with an Irish and a Spanish playwright and two dramas staged thirteen years apart
in London and Paris respectively, this essay experiments with a comparative reading of …

Incomprehension like that suffered by Ireland and its people at the close of Women is and
has been the most frequent response to Maturin's fifth and most famous novel, Melmoth the …

Abstract Invocations of Shakespeare in English Gothic helped situate the genre in a native
tradition. However, Shakespeare's status as a national 'Gothic Bard'was complicated by Irish …

Neste trabalho, desenvolvemos uma reflexão sobre uma das principais obras do romance
gótico e da prosa de ficção romântica em língua inglesa Melmoth the Wanderer (1820), do …

Ireland in the early part of the nineteenth century was changing rapidly due to altering
economic and social structures. The expanding nature of Irish industry in the late eighteenth …

As title implies the article describes current scientific views concerning literary heritage of
Charles Robert Maturin, an Irish writer of the Romantic period. The paper provides the scope …