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Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu

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Carmilla eBook
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The complete online text of Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu.


Biography

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Biography of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
9018 words, approx. 30.1 pages
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu wrote fifteen novels, ranging from historical romances to mysteries, as well as essays, poetry, patriotic ballads, sentimental lyrics, and journalistic pieces. Yet it is largely for his more than forty short stories--often stories...
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Biography of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
4594 words, approx. 15.3 pages
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's contribution to supernatural horror fiction is signally important because he was virtually the first writer to produce ghost stories in Britain. Emerging shortly after the heyday of the Gothic novel, Le Fanu's work offered a muc...
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Biography of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
3244 words, approx. 10.8 pages
During his lifetime Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was a moderately successful novelist in terms of both critical acclaim and the sales of his books. After his death his reputation slid into the typical decline, and only two or three of his novels remained in p...
 


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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Carmilla Information
2,678 words, approx. 9 pages
"Carmilla" was first published in the magazine The Dark Blue in 1872, and then in the author's collection of short stories, In a Glass Darkly the same year. The story ran in The Dark Blue in three issues; January (1872), pp. 592-606; February (1872),...


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Contenido
Carmilla: historia de vampiros. (cuento corto)(TT: Carmilla: Vampire Story) (TA: short story)
07/01/1998: 10,533 words, approx. 35 pages
Las andanzas de una bella y perversa condesita, perteneciente a una añeja estirpe de vampiros, asesinada en el siglo XVII y que 200 años más tarde retorna de la tumba para asediar a los atribulados pobladores de sus antiguas propiedades. En Estiria...
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Criticism
Repossessing the body: transgressive desire in "Carmilla" and Dracula.(vampire story retold with masculine themes added)
09/22/1996: 11,353 words, approx. 38 pages
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's story "Carmilla" became the basis for the better known novel "Dracula," by Bram Stoker, and an examination of the earlier story exposes the controversial themes of women's power and lesbian love affairs that Stoker attempted to control in his retelling....
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Arthur H. Nethercot
3,977 words, approx. 13 pages
In the excerpt below, Nethercot points out parallels between Le Fanu's story "Carmilla" and Coleridge's poem "Christabel. "


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Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu

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