Charles robert maturin biography
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Charles Robert Maturin: His Philosophy and Entirety by Niilo Idman
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Maturin, Charles Robert (1780 - 1824)
(Also wrote under the pseudonym Dennis Jasper Murphy) Irish novelist and playwright.
Maturin is remembered primarily for his novel Melmoth the Wanderer (1820), which is considered among the finest examples of Gothic fiction in the English language. By virtue of its complicated revenge plot, seemingly supernatural phenomena, and use of landscape to create an atmosphere of horror and suspense, Melmoth the Wanderer is strongly reminiscent of the Gothic novels of Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Gregory Lewis. Critics distinguish it from the works of these earlier writers, however, by its attention to the psychology of despair and the torments of religious doubt. More popular in France than in England or Ireland, Melmoth the Wanderer exercised a great influence on nineteenth-century French writers. Maturin's most notable French admirer, Honoré de Balzac, was so impressed with the novel that he wrote a sequel to it entitled Melmoth reconcilié.
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Maturin was born in Dublin, where he spent most of his life. He graduated from Trinity College in 1800 and in 1803 was ordained a minister of the Church of England. After a brief apprentice-ship as curate of the county parish of Loughrea, Galway, where he became familiar wit
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Charles Maturin
Irish Protestant clergyman and writer
Not to be confused with French painter and engraver Charles Maurin.
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Born | Charles Robert Maturin (1780-09-25)25 September 1780 Dublin, Ireland |
Died | 30 October 1824(1824-10-30) (aged 44) Dublin, Ireland |
Nationality | Irish |
Other names | C. R. Maturin |
Occupation(s) | Clergyman, writer |
Children | Edward Maturin |
Charles Robert Maturin, also known as C. R. Maturin (25 September 1780 – 30 October 1824), was an Irish Protestant clergyman (ordained in the Church of Ireland) and a writer of Gothic plays and novels.[1] His best known work is the novel Melmoth the Wanderer, published in 1820 which made a great impact on writers such as Balzac, Baudelaire and Poe.[2]
Early life
[edit]Maturin was descended from Huguenot émigrés who left France and found shelter in Ireland in the anti-Protestant persecution which followed the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in the late seventeenth century.[3] One of these descendants was Gabriel Jacques Maturin, who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin after Jonathan Swift in 1745. Charles Robert Maturin was born in Dublin and attended Trinity College. Shortly after being or