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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788327503321

Autore

Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan <1814-1873.>

Titolo

Carmilla : a critical edition / / by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, a critical edition edited and with an introduction by Kathleen Costello-Sullivan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Syracuse, NY : , : Syracuse University Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-8156-5204-6

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxvi, 168 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Irish studies

Altri autori (Persone)

Costello-SullivanKathleen

Disciplina

823.8

Soggetti

Vampires

Vampire fiction

Horror fiction

Styria (Austria) Fiction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-168).

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : meet Carmilla / Kathleen Costello-Sullivan -- Carmilla / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu -- An Irish Carmilla? / Jarlath Killeen ; Carmilla and the politics of indistinguishability / Renée Fox ; A "ghastly fancy" : the picturesque and the Gothic in Carmilla as a vampire aesthetic / Lisabeth C. Buchelt ; On celluloid Carmillas / Nancy M. West ; Timeline.

Sommario/riassunto

Text of and critical essays on the 1872 vampire tale chronicling the experiences of a young woman lured by the charms of a female vampire.