Marriage Failure, Union Collapse: The Act of Union as a Satanic Marriage in Charles Robert Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer
The 1800 Anglo-Irish Act of Union was publicly portrayed as beneficial for both Britain and Ireland. Press articles, periodicals and politicians on both sides praised the benefits which such political ties would entail. In literature and elsewhere, the image of a marriage, of a family union, was dep...
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Presses Universitaires du Midi
2020-03-01
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| Series: | Caliban: French Journal of English Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/caliban/7285 |