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Irish Gothic: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu & Bram Stoker

Literatura Irlandesa / LEM2055

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

Bem-vindo / Welcome

Introduction

This page gives access to separate indexes (indices) and folders on Joseph Sheridan LeFanu and Bram Stoker - the main "gothic" authors of Ireland and the joint-owners of the vampire tradition in Irish literature. Why did the vampire trope originate in Ireland - is there a historical and/or cultural explanation? There are also copies of leading studies of Irish Gothic as a general phenomena in which the parenthetical question posed here is answered in various ways. To reach the texts and commentary relating to each author, use these links ...

Authors
J. S. Le Fanu Bram Stoker Oscar Wilde

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Some Commentaries and Essays on Irish Gothic

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