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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| description | 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 deployed to endorse such benefits. However, Charles Robert Maturin reverses such a political concoction and unveils its interested intricacies. This paper shows how the satanic marriage is deployed in Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) as a reversed mirror-image of the happy marriage to criticise the self-interest of the Anglo-Irish and the British political classes, and the subsequent neglect the native Catholic population endured. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-47bade28bd154bcfa04b1af2c54a888b2024-02-14T09:26:27ZengPresses Universitaires du MidiCaliban: French Journal of English Studies2425-62502431-17662020-03-0163819410.4000/caliban.7285Marriage Failure, Union Collapse: The Act of Union as a Satanic Marriage in Charles Robert Maturin’s Melmoth the WandererCharlie JorgeThe 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 deployed to endorse such benefits. However, Charles Robert Maturin reverses such a political concoction and unveils its interested intricacies. This paper shows how the satanic marriage is deployed in Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) as a reversed mirror-image of the happy marriage to criticise the self-interest of the Anglo-Irish and the British political classes, and the subsequent neglect the native Catholic population endured.https://journals.openedition.org/caliban/7285Melmoth the WandererCharles MaturinAct of UnionIrish literatureGothic literature |
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| title | Marriage Failure, Union Collapse: The Act of Union as a Satanic Marriage in Charles Robert Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer |
| title_full | Marriage Failure, Union Collapse: The Act of Union as a Satanic Marriage in Charles Robert Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer |
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| title_short | Marriage Failure, Union Collapse: The Act of Union as a Satanic Marriage in Charles Robert Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer |
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