Connolly, Claire(Irish-American Cultural Institute, 2006)
Charles Robert Maturin's gothic novel Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) describes religion as "the national drama" of Catholic countries (I, 95). Maturin explains the inter-penetration of drama and religion that appears throughout ...
Connolly, Claire(Cambridge University Press, 2006)
Ireland entered the period of Romanticism scorched by what Quaker writer Mary Leadbeater called the ‘ruthless fires’ of the 1798 rebellion.[1] Reacting against the threat of Ireland separating from Britain and becoming a ...