Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

(1814-1873)

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Internet Resources: JOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU: A DATABASE (maintained by Gary W. Crawford)

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ACHILLES, Jochen. Sheridan Le Fanu und die schauerromantische tradition: Zur Psychologischen funktion der motrivik von sensationsroman und geister ge-schichte. [GGII: 0679].

ACHILLES, Jochen. “Fantasy as Psychological Necessity: Sheridan Le Fanu’s Fiction” (pp. 150-68). In Gothick Origins and Innovations. eds. Victor Sage and Allan Lloyd Smith. Amsterdam; Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi; Costerus New Series 91, 1994.

ANDRIANO, Joseph. “‘Our Dual Existence’: Archetypes of Love and Death in Le Fanu’s ‘Carmilla’” (pp. 49-55). In Contours of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Eighth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, ed. Michele K. Langford. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994.

ASHLEY, Mike. “LE FANU, J(oseph) Sheridan” (pp. 356-58). In St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost, and Gothic Writers, ed. David Pringle. Detroit: St. James Press/Gale, 1998.

BEGNAL, Michael H. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. [GGI: 1166].

BENSON, E.F. “Sheridan Le Fanu.” [GGII: 0680].

BLEILER, E.F. “Introduction” (pp. v-xi) To The Best Ghost Stories of J. S. Le Fanu. New York: Dover, 1966: v-xi.

BOWEN, Elizabeth. “Introduction.” To Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram Haugh. [GGI: 1167].

BROWN, Joseph. “Ghosts and Ghouls and Le Fanu.” [GGII: 0681].

BROWNE, Nelson. Sheridan Le Fanu. [GGI: 1168].

BROWNELL, David. “Wicked Dreams: The World of Sheridan Le Fanu.” [GGI: 1169].

CAMPBELL, James L. Sr. “Sheridan Le Fanu.” In Supernatural Fiction Writers. [GGII: 0682].

COOLEY, Leo P. “Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: The Struggle of an Irish Imagination.” [GGI: 1170].

CORRAN, Sally Elaine. “The Ghosts that Haunt Us: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s Stories of the Supernatural.” Dissertation Abstracts International 61:11 (2001): 4396 (University of Tennessee).

COUGHLAN, Patricia. “Doubles, Shadows, Sedan-Chairs and the Past: The Ghost Stories of J.S. Le Fanu” (pp. 116-30). In Critical Approaches to Anglo-Irish Literature, eds. Michael Allen and Angela Wilcox. Totowa, NJ: Barnes and Noble, 1989.

CRAWFORD, Gary W. “Sheridan Le Fanu and In a Glass Darkly.” [GGII: 0683].

CRAWFORD, Gary W. 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.

DAVIS, Michael. "Gothic's Enigmatic Signifier: The Case of J. Sheridan Le Fanu's 'Carmilla.'" Gothic Studies 6 (2004):223-35.

DENMAN, Peter. “Le Fanu and Stoker: A Probable Connection.” [GGI: 1171].

DUPEYRON-LAFAY, Françoise. “Les passages dans In a Glass Darkly de J. S. Le Fanu” (pp. 123-35). In Une Littérature de l’inquiétude. Paris: l’Harmattan and Aix-Marseille, Université de Provence, No. 8 Annales du Monde anglophone), 1998. [The landscapes in Le Fanu’s In a Glass Darkly].

DUPEYRON-LAFAY, Françoise. “La Metamorphose dans quelques nouvelles fantastiques de J.S. Le Fanu.” Imaginaires: Revue du Centre de Recherche sur l’Imaginaire dans les Littératures de Langue Anglaise (Imaginaires) 4 (1999): 103-16. [Metamorphosis in Several of J.S. Le Fanu’s Fantastic Narratives].

DUPEYRON-LAFAY, Françoise. “La Paysage dans quelques oeuvres de J.S. Le Fanu.” Imaginaires: Revue du Centre de Recherche sur l’Imaginaire dans les Littératures de Langue Anglaise (Imaginaires) 5 (2000): 67-78. [Landscape in Several Works by J.S. Le Fanu]. On the power of landscape in several novels and short stories.

EDENS, Walter Eugene. “Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: A Minor Victorian and his Publisher.” [GGI: 1172].

ELDEMANN, Theo. “The Unlucky Joseph Le Fanu.” Journal of Irish Studies 20:2 (991): 3-24.

FEU-GUIJARRO, Maria Jose. “The Semantics of the Supernatural in Le Fanu’s ‘Carmilla’: A Functional Lexematic Analysis of the Story of a Female Vampire” (pp. 445-51). In Proceedings of the 20th International AEDEAN Conference, eds. P. Guardia and J. Stone. Barcelona, Spain: Universitat de Barcelona, 1997.

FRANZETTI, Jack P. “A Study of the Preternatural Fiction of Sheridan Le Fanu and its Impact upon the Tales of Dr. Montague Rhodes James.” [GGI: 1174].

GATES, Barbara. “Blue Devils and Green Tea: Sheridan Le Fanu’s Haunted Suicides.” [GGII: 0684].

GATES, David. “‘A Dish of Village Chat’: Narrative Technique in Sheridan Le Fanu’s The House by the Churchyard.” [GGII: 0685].

GEARY, Robert F. “‘Carmilla’ and the Gothic Legacy: Victorian Transformations of Supernatural Horror” (pp. 19-29). In The Blood is the Life: Vampires in Literature, eds. Leonard Heldreth and Mary Pharr. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1999.

GIRARD, Gaïd. “Les Éscrits de Laura.” In Eros, Science Fiction, Fantastique. [GGII: 0686].

GONZALEZ, Rosa M. “Sheridan Le Fanu’s Uncle Silas (1864): An Irish Story Transposed to an English Setting.” Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses (April-Novem-ber, 1991): 101-10.

HAGGERTY, George. “‘Defects and Deformity’ in [Le Fanu’s] Carmilla” (pp. 137-57). In Unnatural Affections: Women and Fiction in the Later Eighteenth Century. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998; Boulder, CO: Net Library, 1999.

HEIM, William J. “Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.” In Critical Survey of Long Fiction. [GGII: 0687].

HELLER, Tamar. “The Vampire in the House: Hysteria, Female Sexuality, and Female Knowledge in Le Fanu’s ‘Carmilla’”  (pp. 77-95). In The New Nineteenth Century: Feminist Readings of Underread Victorian Fiction, eds. Barbara Harman, Susan Meyer, and Joan Sutherland. New York: Garland, 1996.

HOWES, Marjorie. “Misalliance and Anglo-Irish tradition in Le Fanu’s Uncle Silas.Nineteenth-Century Literature 47 (1992): 164-86.

KENTON, Edna. “A Forgotten Creator of Ghosts.” [GGI: 1175].

LAPINSKI, Piya Pal. “Dickens’s Miss Wade and J.S. Le Fanu’s Carmilla.” Dickens Quarterly 11:2 (1994): 81-87.

LOUGHEED, W.C. “An Addition to the Le Fanu Bibliography.” [GGI: 1176].

LOZÉS, Jean. “Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, prince de l’invisible au ‘grand siècle’ des vampires.” [GGI: 1177].

LOZÉS, Jean. “Un Choix raisonné: Le Mode fantastique chez Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.” [GGII: 0688].

LOZÉS, Jean. “The Mysterious Lodger: ou, Le Fanu à coeur ouvert.” [GGII: 0689].

MAGNIER, Mireille. “l’Art du conteur dans ‘Carmilla.’” In Linguistique, Civilisation, Littérature. [GGII: 0690].

MAJOR, Adrienne Antrim. “Other Love: Le Fanu's Carmilla as Lesbian Gothic” (151-166). In Horrifying Sex: Essays on Sexual Difference in Gothic Literature, ed. Ruth Bienstock Anolik. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007.

MANGUM, Teresa. “Sheridan Le Fanu’s Ungovernable Governess.” Studies in  the Novel 29 (1997): 214-37.

MC CORMACK, W.J. “Swedenborgianism as Structure in Le Fanu’s Uncle Silas.” [GGI: 1178].

MC CORMACK, W.J. Sheridan Le Fanu and Victorian Ireland. [GGI: 1179].

MC CORMACK, W.J. Dissolute Characters: Irish Literary History Through Balzac, Sheridan Le Fanu, Yeats, and Bowen. Manchester, NY: Manchester University Press, 1993.

MC CORMACK, W.J. “Le Fanu, J. Sheridan (1814-73)” (pp. 145-46). In The Handbook to Gothic Literature, ed. Marie Mulvey-Roberts. New York: New York University Press, 1998. 

MC NALLY, Raymond. “In Search of the Lesbian Vampire: Barbara Von Cilli, Le Fanu’s ‘Carmilla’ and The Dragon Order.” Journal of Dracula Studies 3 (2001): 8-14.

MEANS, James. “A Note on Le Fanu’s Uncle Silas.” Notes and Queries 42:240 (1995): 196.

MELLADA, Ivan. Sheridan Le Fanu. [GGII: 0691].

MET, Philippe. “Voix de voies de la femme vampire; De Gautier à Le Fanu.” Bulletin de la Societé Théophile Gautier 21 (1999): 267-77. [Voice of Roads of the Female Vampire].

MILBANK, Alison. “Doubting Castle: The Gothic Mode of Questioning.” [GGII: 0692].

MISNER, Lucienne. “Sheridan Le Fanu, Le Fanu’s Uncle Silas and the Tradition of Fantastic Literature.” [GGI: 1179A].

NALECZ-WOJTCZAK, Jolanta. “Uncle Silas: A Link Between Gothic Romance and the Detective Novel in England.” [GGI: 1180].

NALECZ-WOJTCZAK, Jolanta. “The Imagery of the House in J. S. Le Fanu’s Novels.” In Anglo-Irish and Irish Literature: Aspects of Language and Culture. [GGII: 0693].

OREL, Harold. “‘Rigid Adherence to Facts’: Le Fanu’s In a Glass Darkly.” [GGII: 0694].

OREL, Harold. “Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Developing the Horror Tale.” In The Victorian Short Story: The Development and Triumph of a Literary Genre. [GGII: 0695].

RIDENHOUR, Jamieson. “A Terrible Beauty: ‘Carmilla’ as Aisling.” Cleave: A Journal of Literary Criticism 1:2 (2002): 56-63.

ROGERS, Susan Leigh. “Vampire Vixens: The Female Undead and the Lacanian Symbolic Order in Tales by Gautier, James, and Le Fanu.” Dissertation Abstracts International 54:4 (1993): 1352A-53A (University of California, Irvine).

ROOP, Kel. “Making Light in the Shadow Box: The Artistry of Le Fanu.” [GGII: 0696].

RUSSO, John Paul. “Isle of the Dead: Italy and the Uncanny in Arnold Bocklin, Sheridan Le Fanu, and James Russell Lowell.” RLA: Romance Language Annual 1 (19-89): 202-09.

SAGE, Victor. “Resurrecting the Regency: Horror and Eighteenth-Century Comedy in Le Fanu’s Fiction” (pp. 12-30). In Victorian Gothic: Literary and Cultural Manifestations in the Nineteenth Century. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2000. 

SAGE, Victor. Le Fanu’s Gothic: The Rhetoric of Darkness. London and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Scheduled for publication in December 2003.

SENF, Carol A. “Women and Power in Carmilla.” [GGII: 0698].

SHAW, Patricia. “Sheridan Le Fanu: Master of the Occult, the Uncanny and the Ominous.” BELLS: Barcelona English Language and Literature Studies 1 (1989): 189-206.

SHROYER, Frederick B. “A Critical Survey of Representative Works by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Critical Comments upon his Works.” [GGI: 1181].

SHROYER, Frederick B. “Introduction.” To Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram Haugh. [GGI: 1182].

SIGNOROTTI, Elizabeth. “Repossessing the Body: Transgressive Desire in ‘Carmilla’ and Dracula.” Criticism 38 (1996): 607-32.

SILVANI, Giovanna. Analisi di un Racconto Gotico: Carmilla di J.S. Le Fanu. Roma: Bulzoni, 1984. [Analysis of a Gothic Account: J.S. Fanu’s Carmilla].

STODDART, Helen. “‘The Precautions of Nervous People are Infectious’: Sheridan Le Fanu’s Symptomatic Gothic.” [GGII: 0699].

SULLIVAN, John R. Jr. “The English Ghost Story from Le Fanu to Blackwood.” [GGI: 1183].

SUMMERS, Montague. “Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and his Houses.” [GGII: 0700].

SUMMERS, Montague. “Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.” [GGII: 0701].

SUMMERS, Montague. “Le Fanu’s Chilling Creations.” [GGI: 1184].

SWAFFORD, James. “Tradition and Guilt in Le Fanu’s  ‘Schalken the Painter.’” Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 14:2 (1989): 48-59.

SWEENEY, St. John. “Sheridan Le Fanu, the Irish Poe.” [GGII: 0702].

THOMAS, Tammis Elise. “Masquerade Liberties and Female Power in Le Fanu’s Carmilla” (pp. 39-65). In The Haunted Mind: The Supernatural in Victorian Literature, eds. Elton E. Smith and Robert Haas. New York: University Press of America, 1999.

TOWHEED, Shafquat. “A Chasm in the Narrative of Le Fanu’s ‘Green Tea.’” Notes and Queries 46:244 (1999): 67.

TRACY, Robert. “Loving You All Ways: Vamps, Vampires, Necrophiles and Necrofiles in Nineteenth Century Fiction.” In Sex and Death in Victorian Literature. [GGII: 0764].

TRACY, Robert. “Introduction” (pp. vii-xxviii). To In a Glass Darkly. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.

VEEDER, William. “‘Carmilla’: The Arts of Repression.” [GGI: 1186].

VOLLER, Jack G. “Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu” (pp. 248-53). In Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide, eds. Douglass H. Thomson, Jack G. Voller, and Frederick S. Frank. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.

WEGLEY, Mark. “Fear Unknowable: Le Fanu’s Contribution to the Literary Fantastic.” Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 17 (2002): 32-51.

WEGLEY, Mark. “Unknown Fear: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and the Literary Fantastic.” Philological Review 27:2 (2001): 59-77.

ZEENDER, Marie-Noëlle. “Miroir de l’ame irlandaise: Aspects du fantastique chez Le Fanu, chez Wilde, et chez Stoker.” [GGII: 0703].