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FURTHER READING

Biography

McCormack, W. J. Sheridan Le Fanu and Victorian Ireland. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980, 310 p.

An extensively detailed biography of Le Fanu.

Criticism

Achilles, Jochen. "Fantasy as Psychological Necessity: Sheridan Le Fanu's Fiction." In Gothick Origins and Innova-tions, edited by Allan Lloyd Smith and Victor Sage, pp. 150-68. Atlanta, Ga. and Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994.

Elucidates Le Fanu's use of Gothic motifs to produce psychological effects in his supernatural novels and short fiction.

Andriano, Joseph. "'Our Dual Existence': Loving and Dying in Le Fanu's 'Carmilla.'" In Our Ladies of Darkness: Feminine Daemonology in Male Gothic Fiction, pp. 98-105. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993.

Argues that the vampire in "Carmilla" is not a symbol of sterile lesbianism,...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Primary Sources
   1. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (Story Date December 1871–March 1872)
4. General Commentary
   1. T. W. Rolleston (Review Date 26 February 1887)
   2. Victor Sage (Essay Date 2004)
5. Title Commentary
   1. "Carmilla"
   2. Robert F. Geary (Essay Date 1999)
6. Further Reading