Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Chronology of Maturin's life Introduction: Spectres of Maturin or, the ghosts of Irish Romantic fiction 1. Reviving Maturin: the life and works 2. Communing with the dead: the medium and media of Fatal revenge 3. Conjuring Glorvina: The wild Irish boy and the national tale 4. Witnessing the past: the textual ruins of The Milesian chief 5. Narrating history: the burden of words in Women or pour et contre 6. Paratextual possession: re-reading Melmoth the wanderer 7. Re-thinking Scott's revolution: The Albigenses as historical novel Conclusion: Room for more: the future for Maturin research Select bibliography Index
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