By Anna Mercer
A final 2018 report from the ‘Romantic Novels 1818′ seminar. This series is sponsored by BARS and seminars are held at the University of Greenwich.
Charles Robert Maturin, Women; or, Pour et Contre (1818), as discussed by Christina Morin (University of Limerick)
Blog post report by Victoria Ravenwood (Canterbury Christ Church University)
The highly-anticipated final seminar in the ‘Romantic Novels 1818′ series was delivered by Christina Morin, of the University of Limerick, on Charles Robert Maturin’s Women; or, Pour et Contre. Interestingly, Morin opened the discussion with talk of another notable 1818 novel – namely, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein– and the Frankenreads project directed by Neil Fraistat to mark its 200-year anniversary. With this in mind, she presented the question: Why are we celebrating Frankensteinalone, and not any of the other great works published in that same year? Morin offered Maturin’s Womenas an equally fascinating alternative to Shelley’s seminal Gothic work.
Women; or, Pour et Contrewas Maturin’s fourth novel, and centres around the lives of two women – Eva, a deeply religious but naïve young girl; and Zaira, a beautiful, talented and successful actress – and their romantic involvements with the same man, the charming De Courcy. The …read more
Source:: http://www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=2286