Watercolour of Le Fanu by an unknown artist, 1842, © National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG 4864), by kind permission.
Biographical Material
Theme & Subject
- Section on Lefanu in Barbara Gates's Victorian Suicide: Mad Crimes and Sad Histories (Princeton UP, 1988; on this site)
- 'This Queer Corner of the World': Tourism, Colonialism, and Le Fanu’s Writing of Wales
- Le Fanu, ‘Significant Pictures’ and Sensationalism
- ’Ambiguous Alternations’: A Note on Mirroring, Symmetry, Doubling and the Uncanny Effects of Le Fanu’s ‘Carmilla’
- Haunting Sounds: Auditory Effects in the Fictions of J. S. Le Fanu
Literary Relations — Influences, Confluences, Critical Reception, and Reputation
- Publishers urge Trollope & LeFanu to avoid Irish subjects
- Specific settings in Gaskell, Dickens, and LeFanu
- ‘Metaphysical Medicine’: de Boismont, Le Fanu and a Source for ‘Green Tea’
Setting & Description
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Last modified 2 April 2018