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

Martin Willis

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

Martin Willis

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Literature and Science: Essays and Studies 2008
Pages	111-130
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2008

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literature and science
sheridan le fanu
disease

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