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Vision and Vacancy: The Fictions of J.S. Le Fanu
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By: James Walton
Publisher: University College Dublin Press
Published: March 2007
Pages: 288
Categories: Literature
Language: English
Available as: Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9781904558781
ASIN: 190455878X

Follows the course of Sheridan Le Fanu's attraction to the void, and his resistance to it, from the beginning to the end of his career. By placing his work within the appropriate contexts of early apparition narrative and modern ghost story, this study shows how cosmopolitan influences were an inescapable condition of his (Anglo-) Irishness. Underlying the melodrama and moralism, the orthodoxy and mysticism of Uncle Silas, W. J. Mc Cormack has discovered a 'sinister vacancy from which authority has withdrawn'. The remark might be applied to the whole body of Sheridan Le Fanu's fiction. "Vision and Vacancy" follows the course of his attraction to the void, and his resistance to it, from the beginning to the end of his career. By placing his work within the appropriate contexts of early apparition narrative and modern ghost story, English and Continental novel, Walton's study provides not only the most thorough account of the richness of his techniques but shows how cosmopolitan influences were an inescapable condition of his Anglo-Irishness.

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