Carmilla: A Critical Edition

by Joseph Le Fanu, Kathleen Costello-Sullivan (Editor)

Overview

First serialized in the journal "The Dark Blue" and published shortly thereafter in the short story collection In a Glass Darkly, Le Fanu’s 1872 vampire tale is in many ways the overlooked older sister of Bram Stoker’s more acclaimed Dracula. A thrilling gothic tale, Carmilla tells the story of a young woman lured by the charms of a female vampire.

This edition includes a student-oriented introduction, tracing the major critical responses to Carmilla, and four interdisciplinary essays by leading scholars who analyze the story from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Ranging from politics to gender, Gothicism to feminism, and nineteenth-century aestheticism to contemporary film studies, these critical yet accessible articles model the diverse ways that scholars can approach a single text. With a glossary, biography, bibliography, and explanatory notes on the text, this edition is ideal for students of Irish and British nineteenth-century literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815652045
Publisher:	Syracuse University Press
Publication date:	05/15/2013
Series:	Irish Studies
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	602,735
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Kate Costello-Sullivan is Associate Professor of Modern Irish Literature and the Director of the Irish Literature Program in the English department at Le Moyne College. Her articles have appeared in Working Papers in Irish Studies, Postscript: A Journal of Graduate Criticism and Theory and New Hibernia Review.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xi

Notes on the Text xiii

Introduction: Meet Carmilla Kathleen Costello-Sullivan xvii

Part 1 Carmilla Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 3

Part 2 An Irish Carmilla? Jarlath Killeen 99

Carmilla and the Politics of Indistinguishability Renée Fox 110

A "Ghastly Fancy": The Picturesque and the Gothic in Carmilla as a Vampire Aesthetic Lisabeth C. Buchelt 122

On Celluloid Carmillas Nancy M. West 138

Timeline 151

Works Cited and Additional Materials 155

Biographical Notes 165