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Aoife Mary Dempsey - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Inbunden

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Del i serien Gothic Authors: Critical Revisions

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Av Aoife Mary Dempsey

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This book considers the fiction of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73) in their original material and cultural contexts of the early-to-mid Victorian period in Ireland. Le Fanu's longstanding relationship with the Dublin University Magazine, a popular literary and political journal, is a crucial context in the examination of his work. Likewise, Le Fanu's fiction is considered as part of a wider surge of supernatural, historical and antiquarian activity by Irish Protestants in the period following the Act of Union between Great Britain and Ireland (1801). Le Fanu's habit of writing and re-writing stories is discussed in detail, a practice that has engendered much confusion and consternation. Posthumous collections of Le Fanu's work are compared with original publications, demonstrating the importance of these material and cultural contexts. This book reveals new critical readings of some of Le Fanu's best known fiction, while also casting light on some of his regrettably overlooked work through recontextualisation.
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Aoife Mary Dempsey is currently an Adjunct Lecturer at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. She received her doctorate from TCD in 2018 for the submission of her thesis on J. S. Le Fanu.

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There is considerably more to the fiction of J. S. Le Fanu than Uncle Silas and In a Glass Darkly. In this accessible volume, the author presents both a comprehensive overview and a thoughtful reassessment of the breadth of Le Fanu’s writings, highlighting in particular their implication in the prevailing culture of literary serialisation. This will be an invaluable book for any reader seeking to seriously understand this most prolific of Victorian Gothic authors.’ Professor William Hughes, University of Macau ‘This is an incisive, clear-sighted and convincing reconsideration of one of the most significant Irish Victorian writers. The close examination of Le Fanu’s early short stories, and Dempsey’s judicious treatment of his habit of revising this earlier material for later publication, is particularly welcome.

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