Le Fanu's Gothic: The Rhetoric of Darkness

Sage concentrates on the development in Le Fanu of hybrid forms, examining closely the corpus of this author's work from the point of view of narrative methods and implied reader positions, and relating these throughout to contemporary, cultural politics from the 1830s to the 1870s. The book contains separate discussions of the early work of Uncle Silas, and "Carmilla"; and gives space to the unpublished romances, which are often neglected.

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Le Fanu's Gothic: The Rhetoric of Darkness

Sage concentrates on the development in Le Fanu of hybrid forms, examining closely the corpus of this author's work from the point of view of narrative methods and implied reader positions, and relating these throughout to contemporary, cultural politics from the 1830s to the 1870s. The book contains separate discussions of the early work of Uncle Silas, and "Carmilla"; and gives space to the unpublished romances, which are often neglected.

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Le Fanu's Gothic: The Rhetoric of Darkness

Le Fanu's Gothic: The Rhetoric of Darkness

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Le Fanu's Gothic: The Rhetoric of Darkness

Le Fanu's Gothic: The Rhetoric of Darkness

by Kartik B Athreya

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Sage concentrates on the development in Le Fanu of hybrid forms, examining closely the corpus of this author's work from the point of view of narrative methods and implied reader positions, and relating these throughout to contemporary, cultural politics from the 1830s to the 1870s. The book contains separate discussions of the early work of Uncle Silas, and "Carmilla"; and gives space to the unpublished romances, which are often neglected.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780333677551
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 03/05/2003
Edition description: 2004
Pages: 233
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Victor Sage is Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of East Anglia.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Introduction PART ONE: RE-FRAMING THE GOTHIC Two Stories: Chiaroscuro and the Politics of Superstition Gothic and Romance: Retribution and Reconciliation 'Cyclopean History'; The House By the Churchyard PART TWO: GOTHIC HYBRIDS Dreadful Witness: Narrative Perversity and Wylder's Hand Magic Lanthern: Uncle Silas, Indirection and the Layered Text Doubleplot I: The Tenants of Malory Doubleplot II: Haunted Lives 'Carmilla': 'I'll Let You Be In My Dream If I Can Be In Yours' Bibliography Index

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