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 …

This book analyzes the roots of Irish social and sexual conservatism and the dramatic
change in one of the most basic areas of human experience: how we understand our roles …

At the start of the twentieth century, tales of “how the other half lives” experienced a surge in
popularity. People looking to go slumming without leaving home turned to these narratives …

Publication subvention grant from the College of Arts and Sciences at the Ohio State
University. Portions of this book initially appeared as articles in Literature Compass …

Page 1 HISTORY OF THE GOTHIC Jarlath Killeen Page 2 Page 3 GOTHIC LITERATURE
1825–1914 Page 4 SERIES PREFACE Gothic Literary Studies is dedicated to publishing …

The Things That Fly in the Night explores images of vampirism in Caribbean and African
diasporic folk traditions and in contemporary fiction. Giselle Liza Anatol focuses on the figure …

Ranging from cinematic images of Jane Austen's estates to Oscar Wilde's drawing rooms,
Dianne F. Sadoff looks at popular heritage films, often featuring Hollywood stars, that have …

This is the first comprehensive study of the Irish writers of the Victorian age, some of them
still remembered, most of them now forgotten. Their work was often directed to a British as …

Christine Ferguson's timely study is the first comprehensive examination of the importance of
language in forming a crucial nexus among popular fiction, biology, and philology at the …

Terror and Irish Modernism offers a synoptic overview of modern Irish fiction. Covering more
than two centuries of literary production, Jim Hansen locates the root structure of modern …