Le Fanu’s ‘Carmilla’, Ireland, and Diseased Vision

Martin Willis

Le Fanu’s ‘Carmilla’, Ireland, and Diseased Vision

Martin Willis

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This chapter considers how Sheridan Le Fanu’s short story ‘Carmilla’ uses and transforms contemporary understandings of disease to investigate the relationship between infection and national identity – particularly the varied identities of Ireland and the Irish in the 1870s.

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Teitl	Literature and Science: Essays and Studies 2008
Tudalennau	111-130
Statws	Cyhoeddwyd - 1 Ion 2008

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