Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Vision and Vacancy : The Fictions of J.S. Le Fanu, Hardback Book

Vision and Vacancy : The Fictions of J.S. Le Fanu Hardback

Hardback

Description

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J. Mc Cormack has discovered a 'sinister vacancy from which authority has withdrawn'.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.

Information

£56.00

 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information