Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

(1814-1873)

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ACHILLES, Jochen. Sheridan Le Fanu und die schauerromantische tradition: Zur Psychologischen funktion der motrivik von sensationsroman und geistergeschichte. 0679

________. "Fantasy as Psychological Necessity: Sheridan Le Fanu's Fiction." Gothick Origins and Innovations. Eds. Victor Sage & Allan Lloyd Smith. Amsterdam; Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi; Costerus New Series 91, 1994, 150-168. On doubles, closed rooms, repression, and other Gothic themes and devices in Le Fanu's long and short fiction. "Le Fanu reorganizes the stock devices of gothic fiction in such a manner that they yield deep psychological insight."

ASHLEY, Mike. "LE FANU, J(oseph) Sheridan" In St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost, & Gothic Writers, Ed. David Pringle. Detroit: St. James Press/Gale, 1998: 356-358. LeFanu must be regarded as the "father of the modern ghost story." He used Gothic motifs "but would not let them dominate his work preferring to use them as background."

BEGNAL, Michael H. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. 1166

BENSON, E. F. "Sheridan Le Fanu." 0680

BOWEN, Elizabeth. Introduction to Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram Haugh. 1167

BROWN, Joseph. "Ghosts and Ghouls and Le Fanu." 0681

BROWNE, Nelson. Sheridan Le Fanu. 1168

BROWNELL, David. "Wicked Dreams: The World of Sheridan Le Fanu." 1169

CAMPBELL, James L. Sr. "Sheridan Le Fanu" in Supernatural Fiction Writers. 0682

COOLEY, Leo P. "Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: The Struggle of an Irish Imagination." 1170

CRAWFORD, Gary W. "Sheridan Le Fanu and In a Glass Darkly." 0683

COUGHLAN, Patricia. "Doubles, Shadows, Sedan-Chairs and the Past: The Ghost Stories of J. S. Le Fanu," Critical Approaches to Anglo-Irish Literature, eds. Michael Allen & Angela Wilcox. Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble, 1989, [data

CRAWFORD, Gary William. J. Sheridan Le Fanu: A Bio-bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995. Provides an overview of Le Fanu's life and writings together with a comprehensive primary and secondary bibliographies.

DENMAN, Peter. "Le Fanu and Stoker: A Probable Connection." 1171

DUPEYRON-LAFAY, Françoise. "Les passages dans In a Glass Darkly de J. S. Le Fanu," Une Littérature de l'inquiétude. Paris: l'Harmattan & Aix-Marseille, Université de Provence, No. 8 Annales du Monde anglophone), 1998, [data] [The landscapes in Le Fanu's In a Glass Darkly

EDENS, Walter Eugene. "Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: A Minor Victorian and his Publisher." 1172

FRANZETTI, Jack P. "A Study of the Preternatural Fiction of Sheridan Le Fanu and its Impact upon the Tales of Dr. Montague Rhodes James." 1174

GATES, Barbara. "Blue Devils and Green Tea: Sheridan Le Fanu's Haunted Suicides." 0684

GATES, David. " ' A Dish of Village Chat ': Narrative Technique in Sheridan Le Fanu's The House by the Churchyard." 0685

GEARY, Robert F. "Carmilla and the Gothic Legacy: Victorian Transformations of Supernatural Horror," The Blood is the Life: Vampires in Literature, eds. Leonard Heldreth & Mary Pharr. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1999, [data

GIRARD, Gaïd. "Les Éscrits de Laura" In Eros, Science Fiction, Fantastique. 0686

HAGGERTY, George. " ' Defects and Deformity ' in [Le Fanu's] Carmilla" In Unnatural Affections: Women and Fiction in the Later Eighteenth Century. Bloomington, IN. : Indiana University Press, 1998; Boulder, CO: Net Library, 1999: 137-157.

HEIM, William J. "Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu" In Critical Survey of Long Fiction. 0687

HOWES, Marjorie. "Misalliance and Anglo-Irish tradition in Le Fanu's Uncle Silas," Nineteenth-Century Literature 47 (1992): 164-186.

KENTON, Edna. "A Forgotten Creator of Ghosts." 1175

LOUGHEED, W. C. "An Addition to the Le Fanu Bibliography." 1176

LOZÉS, Jean. "Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, prince de l'invisible au ' grand siècle ' des vampires." 1177

________. "Un Choix raisonné: Le Mode fantastique chez Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu." 0688

________. "The Mysterious Lodger: ou, Le Fanu à coeur ouvert." 0689

MAGNIER, Mireille. "L'Art du conteur dans ' Carmilla ' " In Linguistique, Civilisation, Littérature. 0690

MC CORMACK, W.J. "Swedenborgianism as Structure in Le Fanu's Uncle Silas." 1178

________. Sheridan Le Fanu and Victorian Ireland. 1179

________. Dissolute Characters: Irish Literary History Through Balzac, Sheridan Le Fanu, Yeats, and Bowen. Manchester, NY: Manchester UP, 1993.

________. "Le Fanu, "Le Fanu, J. Sheridan (1814-1873)" In The Handbook to Gothic Literature, Ed. Marie Mulvey-Roberts. New York: New York University Press, 1998: 145-146.

MELLADA, Ivan. Sheridan Le Fanu. 0691

MILBANK, Alison. "Doubting Castle: The Gothic Mode of Questioning." 0692

MISNER, Lucienne. "Sheridan Le Fanu, Le Fanu's Uncle Silas and the Tradition of Fantastic Literature." 1179A

NALECZ-WOJTCZAK, Jolanta. "Uncle Silas: A Link Between Gothic Romance and the Detective Novel in England." 1180

________. "The Imagery of the House in J. S. Le Fanu's Novels" In Anglo-Irish and Irish Literature: Aspects of Language and Culture. 0693

OREL, Harold. " ' Rigid Adherence to Facts ': Le Fanu's In a Glass Darkly." 0694

_______. "Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Developing the Horror Tale" In The Victorian Short Story: The Development and Triumph of a Literary Genre. 0695

ROOP, Kel. "Making Light in the Shadow Box: The Artistry of Le Fanu." 0696

RUSSO, John Paul. "Isle of the Dead: Italy and the Uncanny in Arnold Böcklin, Sheridan Le Fanu, and James Russell Lowell." 0697

SAGE, Victor. "Resurrecting the Regency: Horror and Eighteenth-Century Comedy in Le Fanu's Fiction" In Victorian Gothic: Literary and Cultural Manifestations in the Nineteenth Century. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2000: 12-30.

SENF, Carol A. "Women and Power in Carmilla." 0698

SHROYER, Frederick B. "A Critical Survey of Representative Works by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Critical Comments upon his Works." 1181

________. Introduction to Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram Haugh. 1182

SILVANI, Giovanna. Analisi di un Racconto Gotico: Carmilla di J.S. Le Fanu. Roma: Bulzoni, 1984.

STODDART, Helen. " ' The Precautions of Nervous People are Infectious ': Sheridan Le Fanu's Symptomatic Gothic." 0699

SULLIVAN, John R. Jr. "The English Ghost Story from Le Fanu to Blackwood." 1183

________. Elegant Nightmares: The English Ghost Story from Le Fanu to Blackwood. 2190

SUMMERS, Montague. "Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and his Houses." 0700

________. "Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu." 0701

________. "Le Fanu's Chilling Creations." 1184

SWEENEY, St. John. "Sheridan Le Fanu, the Irish Poe." 0702

THOMAS, Tammis Elise. "Masquerade Liberties and Female Power in Le Fanu's Carmilla" In The Haunted Mind: The Supernatural in Victorian Literature, Eds. Elton E. Smith & Robert Haas. New York: University Press of America, 1999: 39-65.

TRACY, Robert. "Loving You All Ways: Vamps, Vampires, Necrophiles and Necrofiles in Nineteenth Century Fiction" in Sex and Death in Victorian Literature. 0764

VEEDER, William. " ' Carmilla ': The Arts of Repression." 1186

VOLLER, Jack G. "Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu." In Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide, Eds. Douglass H. Thomson, Jack G. Voller, Frederick S. Frank. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002: 248-253.

ZEENDER, Marie-Noelle. "Miroir de l'ame irlandaise: Aspects du fantastique chez Le Fanu, chez Wilde, et chez Stoker." 0703