Lefanu's Gothic: Politics, Culture, Narrative

Sage concentrates on the development in Le Fanu of hybrid forms, examining closely the corpus of this author's work from the point of view of narrative methods and implied reader positions, and relating these throughout to contemporary, cultural politics from the 1830s to the 1870s. The book contains separate discussions of the early work of Uncle Silas, and "Carmilla"; and gives space to the unpublished romances, which are often neglected.

"Sage's book addresses LeFanu, and the issues his texts raise, with panache: he brings to bear a profound historical knowledge, particularly of the all-important Irish dimension of LeFanu's work, but also - and perhaps most strikingly - a keen awareness of narrative and rhetorical devices. I think I hardly need to say more: there is no other respectable book on LeFanu, and one is needed. Sage has, in my opinion, written it." -- David Punter, University of Bristol

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