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Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan |
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Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan (lĕ` fəny  ), 1814–73, Irish author. He spent his early career as a journalist. In 1863, he began producing a series of stories noted for their reflections of Irish life and supernatural, mysterious atmosphere. His two best works are the novels The House by the Churchyard (1863) and Uncle Silas (1864). Other works include In a Glass Darkly (1872) and The Purcell Papers (1880), both collections of stories.
BibliographySee his ghost stories collected in Best Ghost Stories, ed. by E. F. Bleiler (1964); study by M. H. Begnal (1971) and W. McCormack (1980). |
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| REVIEWING Ian Robinson's The English Prophets: A Critical Defence of English Criticism (2001) in The Cambridge Quarterly (2002), Mark Le Fanu writes: Le Fanu uses merely a shadow of a presence, lightly drawn and nebulous, to haunt the main character into cataleptic death. James le Fanu of London, there's nothing wrong with "discriminating against those [patients] with the least chances of survival in favor of those with the best. |
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