Charles Robert Maturin's well-known novel, Melmoth the Wanderer
(1820), occupies a high-point in Gothic literature. Lurid, vivid,
sacrilegious, paranoid, anti-Catholic, painfully tortuous and
gleefully drawn out in its depictions of suffering, its title
character tries to find victims miserable enough to take over his
bargain with "the enemy of mankind." Maturin displayed his talents
of "darkening the gloomy" by interweaving tales of Melmoth's
intended victims: the Englishman Stanton, ensnared into an insane
asylum; the Spaniard Moncada, trapped in monasteries and prisons of
the Inquisition; Immalee, an innocent child of nature; Elinor, a
Puritan maiden crossed in love, blighted by cruel deception. All
are confronted with Melmoth's icy seductions. Maturin's uncanny
aptitude for alternating vertiginous intensity with brooding
melancholy and despair leads the reader to a dark side of the
psyche where the heavy price paid for redemption often tests human
fortitude and conviction beyond the limits of endurance.
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