ABSTRACT
Byron, Deformed Transformed (1824); London Magazine, IX (March 1824), 315–321. The monstrous literary works alluded to (pp. 315–316) include a translation of Goethe’s Faust by Lord Francis Levenson Gower (1823), Charles Robert Maturin’s drama Bertram (1816), and Maturin’s Gothic novel, Melmoth, the Wanderer (1820). The review fails, however, to distinguish between successful works employing the grotesque or supernatural and works that turned such elements to crude or sensational uses.
