II.
[23] Irish Quarterly Review 1852.
[24] Dublin and London Magazine 1826, p. 248.
[25] The Gothic Romance has been a subject for thorough investigation on the part of German scholars. There is an extensive study of it in Helene Richter, Geschichte der Englischen Romantik, Halle 1911, vol. I pp. 160-300 (Die Schauerromantik), as well as in Wilhelm Dibelius, Englische Romankunst, Berlin und Leipzig 1922, pp. 285-346 (Der Sensationsroman). Maturin’s connection with the movement is treated of in Willy Müller, Charles Robert Maturin’s Romane “The fatal Revenge” und “Melmoth the Wanderer.” Ein Beitrag zur Gothic Romance, Weida 1908—and the work of Walpole, Clara Reeve and Mrs Radcliffe in Hans Möbius, The Gothic Romance, Leipzig 1902. Of recent English publications three must be particularly mentioned: Oliver Elton, A Survey of English Literature 1780-1830, London 1912, vol. I pp. 202-226 (The Novel of Suspense); the Cambridge History of English Literature 1914, vol. XI pp. 285-310 (by G. Saintsbury); and Dorothy Scarborough, The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction, New York and London 1917 (chapter I: The Gothic Romance).
[26] Richter, p. 164.
[27] ibid. p. 161.
[28] Scott, Introduction to the Castle of Otranto, prefixed to the edition in the Kings Classics, edited by Professor I. Gollancz, London 1907.
[29] ibid.
[30] British Review 1818.
[31] The Cabinet of Irish Literature, vol. II p. 44.