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J. S. Le Fanu & Gothic Ireland

Literatura Irlandesa / LEM2055

Dr. Bruce Stewart
Reader Emeritus in English Literature
University of Ulster

Index of Resources
Classroom Readings Critical Commentary
Some Further Texts The Oxford Companion


Classroom Texts
“Carmilla” - the first vampire story [an abbreviated version] .pdf .doc
“Green Tea” - the monkey on your back [abbreviated version] .pdf .doc

Longer Texts [Ricorso Library]
Carmilla (1857) “Madam Crowl’s Ghost” (1870)
Uncle Silas (1864)
“Green Tea” (1871)

Secondary Texts

Scholarly Commentaries

Elizabeth Bowen and W. J. McCormack on the Irish Background of Le Fanu’s Silas Marner and other works
download
Christopher Craft, ‘“Kiss Me with Those Red Lips”: Gender and Inversion in Bram Stoker’s Dracula’ (1989) download
Recent Irish commentaries on Dracula: Andrew Parkin, Seamus Deane and Terry Eagleton (1988-97) download
Roy Foster on ‘Protestant Magic in Irish Literary and Society’, in Yeats’s Political Identities, ed. Jonathan Allison (1996) download
Dawn Boreham, “The Revenant in Contemporary Fiction” (Undergraduate Dissertation / Univ. of Ulster 2006) download
Maeve Davey, “Notes on Gothic Fiction”: A Thesis Proposal on the Postcolonial Writers of Northern Ireland (Ulster 2007) download
Bruce Stewart, ‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula: Possessed by the Spirit of the Nation?’ (1998) download


The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature (1996)
ed. Robert Welch; asst. ed. Bruce Stewart
On Bram Stoker - The Snake's Pass (1890) - Dracula (1897)
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On J. S. Le Fanu - House by the Churchyard (1863) - Uncle Silas (1864) .. &c. download
   

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