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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Carmilla"”.
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J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla: A Tri-Part Exploration of the Vampiric Novel
… thesis presents three new interpretations into Carmilla scholarship. This thesis moves away from the current interpretations, which use queer theory with Laura and Carmilla and an Anglo-Irish context, by looking at characters largely ignored by current scholarship and by engaging politics in …
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Queering the Spheres: Non-Normative Gender, Sexuality, and Family in Three Victorian Texts
… “Goblin Market,” and J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla. I apply queer theory to locate these authors’ attempts to destabilize heteronormativity by depicting non-normative gender roles, sexualities, and families in texts that emphasize the Victorian ideology of separate spheres. Many scholars …
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"'The Dead Travel Fast'": The Gothic Politics of Irish Literature
… oppression. The first two chapters focus on Carmilla and Dracula, specifically how LeFanu and Stoker utilize the figure of the vampire not only to allegorize their struggles with Anglo-Irish identity, but also to show how that figure represents native Irish rebellion and its destruction and …
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Obscured Visions: Psychology, Religion, and Mysticism in J. SHeridan Le Fanu's In a Glass Darkly
… however, scholarly criticism often focuses on “Carmilla” (1872) and other texts in isolation instead of viewing In A Glass Darkly as a whole. Additionally, Le Fanu receives less recognition than his contemporaries such as Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Charles Maturin—even …
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Death Becomes Us: The Consumptive Body in Nineteenth-Century Gothic Literature
… author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s novella <em>Carmilla</em>, paying close attention to moments of symptom description, physical description, moments of transmission, and character’s relationships to their environment, in order to break down the cultural influence of tuberculosis that the …
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“More than What [They] Made Us to Be”: From Passing to Perception in Victorian and Modern Vampire Media
… Stoker’s Count Dracula or Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla, who possess the temporary capacity to pass until their hidden monstrosity is revealed over time. Even if Gothic monsters are confined to a limited space and time far from society, this is still not enough; in accordance with the Victorian …