Books

Achilles, Jochen.  Sheridan Le Fanu und die Schauerromantische Tradition: zur Psychologischen Funktion der Motivik von Sensationsroman und Geistergeschichte.  Tubingen:  G. Narr, 1991.

Anon.  J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873).  Ebook.

As part of Pegasos, Kuunsankosken Kaupunginkirjasto of Finland presents a biographical sketch of the Irish novelist Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873).  Le Fanu is the creator of the modern ghost story.

Bauch, Christopher.  Zu: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu--Carmilla: Der weibliche Vampir im erotischen Gewand.  Grin Verlag, 2008.

A short German language study of Le Fanu's "Carmilla."

Dagg, T.S.C. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873):  A Memorial Discourse Delivered in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, on Trinity Monday, 13th June, 1949. Dublin:  The Dublin University Press, Trinity College, 1949.

A short fifteen page pamphlet of a lecture delivered in 1949.  Bases much on the work of S.M. Ellis and Alfred Perceval Graves. Interesting for mentioning the dramatizations of Le Fanu's works by Lady Longford and others.

Gaul, Ilona.  Women's Sexual Liberation from Victorian Patriarchy in Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla.  Grin Verlag, 2007.

Girard, Gaid. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu:  Une ecriture fantastique.  Paris: Champion, 2005.

A close reading of a number of Le Fanu texts that emphasizes the hybrid nature of his work and his self-consciousness as a writer. A excellent review of this book in English by Victor Sage is in The Irish University Review 37.1 (22 March 2007): 281-86. There is also a French language review by F. Dupeyron-Lafay in Etudes Anglaises 60.2 (2007): 239-41.

Lozes, Jean.  Un roman gothique irlandais: Uncle Silas de Sheridan Le Fanu.  Bordeaux:  Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, 1992.

McCormack, W.J. Sheridan Le Fanu and Victorian Ireland.  2nd ed. Dublin: Lilliput, 1990.

A revised version of the book originally published in 1980 by Oxford University Press.

McCormack, W.J. Sheridan Le Fanu.  3rd ed. Phoenix Mill, England: Sutton, 1997.

A new revision with a new introduction by McCormack.

Nalecz-Wojtczak, Jolanta.  Picture and Meaning: The Visual Dimension of Sheridan Le Fanu's Fiction.  Lodz Wydan. Lodzkiego, 1991.

Pezzini, Franco. Cercando Carmilla.  La leggenda della donna vimpira, Ananke.  Italy: Torino, 2000.

Sage, Victor. Le Fanu's Gothic: The Rhetoric of Darkness.  Houndmills, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

This study explores the relations between reader and text across the span of Sheridan Le Fanu's career, placing his early work of the 1830s in context.  Victor Sage concentrates on the development of Le Fanu's hybrid forms, which mingle satire and comedy with Gothic horror, and also discusses the early work of Uncle Silas and "Carmilla," giving space to the often neglected unpublished romances.

Schneidewind, Friedhelm and Ulrike Schneidewind, eds.  Carmilla: und es gibt sie doch!  Saarbruken, Germany: Logos-Verlag, 1994.

Silvani, Giovanna.  Analisi di un racconto gothico: 'Carmilla' di J. S. Le Fanu.  Rome:  Bulzoni, 1984.

Walton, James.  Vision and Vacancy:  The Fictions of J.S. Le Fanu.  Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2007.

Taking his cue from W.J. McCormack, James Walton approaches Le Fanu's works from  the recurring motif of "the void."  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.