Vision and Vacancy: The Fictions of J.S. Le Fanu (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781904558781)

Underlying the melodrama and moralism, the orthodoxy and mysticism of Uncle Silas, W. J. Mc Cormack has discovered a 'sinister vacancy from which authority has withdrawn'. The remark might be applied to the whole body of Sheridan Le Fanu's fiction. "Vision and Vacancy" follows the course of his attraction to the void, and his resistance to it, from the beginning to the end of his career. By placing his work within the appropriate contexts of early apparition narrative and modern ghost story, English and Continental novel, Walton's study provides not only the most thorough account of the richness of his techniques but shows how cosmopolitan influences were an inescapable condition of his (Anglo-) Irishness.

Author: James Walton
ISBN-10: 190455878X
ISBN-13: 9781904558781
Publisher: University College Dublin Press
Language: English
Published: 03/22/2007
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 9.15h x 6.39w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2008 pg. 259
Library Journal 11/15/2007