Vision and Vacancy: The Fictions of J.S. Le Fanu (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781904558798)

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orthodoxy and mysticism of Uncle Silas, W. J. Mc Cormack has discovered a 'sinister vacancy from which authority has withdrawn'.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: 1904558798
ISBN-13: 9781904558798
Publisher: University College Dublin Press
Language: English
Published: 03/22/2007
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.39h x 6.56w x 1.02d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/15/2007 pg. 60
Choice 02/01/2008 pg. 1163