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Best known for his Gothic masterpiece Uncle Silas and the vampire
story Carmilla, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was a prolific writer whose
extensive body of work included historical, sensation and horror
novels, poems and ballads, numerous stories of the supernatural,
journalism and a verse-drama. While his name is well known to
aficionados of the horror genre, much of his work still remains in
the shadows. Indeed, despite his vampire creation, Carmilla, being
the best-known female blood-sucker in the world, and despite an
enormous scholarly and popular interest in the novella in which
this character first appeared (an interest evident in the very
large number of cinematic, televisual and even new media
adaptations of the story), Le Fanu himself is almost completely
unknown outside of the world of Irish Gothic scholarship, and most
of his fiction remains difficult to obtain or is out of print. To
celebrate the bicentenary of Le Fanu's birth, this collection
brings together established scholars and emerging researchers in
order to shed new light on some of his less famous fiction and
celebrate his influential contribution to the Gothic genre. The
main aim of the collection is to read Le Fanu in the round,
expanding the critical focus away from its current obsession with a
small proportion of his work and taking account of the full extent
of his writing, from his other Gothic novels, The Rose and the Key,
Haunted Lives and A Lost Name, to his short stories and journalism.
The collection also considers Le Fanu's relationship to Victorian
Ireland and especially Dublin from a number of different angles, as
well as addressing his status as an 'Irish' writer of substance.
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