Carmilla

Carmilla Sources and ClassicNote Author

  • Le Fanu, J. Sheridan. Carmilla. San Bernardino: Unknown, 2020.
  • Jönsson, Gabriella. "The Second Vampire: 'filles fatales' in J. Sheridan Le Fanu's 'Carmilla' and Anne Rice's 'Interview with the Vampire.'" Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, vol. 17, no. 1 (65), 2006, pp. 33-48.

  • Dobson, Roger. "The Scarlet and the Black: A Curiosity in 'Carmilla.'" The Green Book: Writings on Irish Gothic, Supernatural and Fantastic Literature, no. 4, Samhain 2014, pp. 27-33.

  • Signorotti, Elizabeth. "Repossessing the Body: Transgressive Desire in 'Carmilla' and 'Dracula.'" Criticism, vol. 38, no. 4, 1996, pp. 607-32.

  • Michelis, Angelica. "'Dirty Mamma': Horror, Vampires, and the Maternal in Late Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fiction." Critical Survey, vol. 15, no. 3, 2003, pp. 5-22.

  • Stoddart, Helen. "'The Precautions of Nervous People Are Infectious': Sheridan Le Fanu's Symptomatic Gothic." The Modern Language Review, vol. 86, no. 1, 1991, pp. 19-34.

  • Simpson, Jacqueline. "The Charm of Old Women’s Tales: Le Fanu’s Use of Oral Tradition." The Green Book: Writings on Irish Gothic, Supernatural and Fantastic Literature, no. 1, 2013, pp. 43-55.

  • Lee, Hyun-Jong. "'One for Ever': Desire, Subjectivity, and the Threat of the Abject in Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla." Vampires: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil, edited by Peter Day, Rodopi, 2006, pp. 21-38.

  • Hansen, Jim. Terror and Irish Modernism: The Gothic Tradition from Burke to Beckett. State University of New York Press, 2009.

  • Veeder, William. "Carmilla: The Arts of Repression." Texas Studies in Literature and Language, vol. 22, no. 2, 1980, pp. 197-223.

  • Sabriye, Sezer. "Sheridan Le Fanu’s 'Carmilla': A Different Vampire Story." Mediterranean Journal of Humanities, vol. 2, 2012, pp. 143-149.

  • "Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu." The Literature Network. 3/19/20. <http://www.online-literature.com/lefanu/>.
  • "Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Facts." Encyclopedia of World Biography. 3/19/20. <https://biography.yourdictionary.com/joseph-sheridan-le-fanu>.
  • Sorenson, Emma. "Dublin’s Original Vampire: Carmilla, Sheridan Le Fanu, and LGBTQ+ Representation." 3/26/20. <https://planetgeogblog.wordpress.com/2018/10/31/dublins-original-vampire-carmilla-sheridan-le-fanu-and-lgbtq-representation/>.
  • Pilkington, Ace. " The Changing Legend of the Vampire." 3/27/20. <https://www.bard.org/study-guides/the-changing-legend-of-the-vampire>.
  • "Just in Time for Halloween ." 3/27/20. <https://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/1998/1028/vampires.html>.
  • Radford, Benjamin. "Vampires: Fact, Fiction, and Folklore." Live Science. 3/27/20. <https://www.livescience.com/24374-vampires-real-history.html>.
  • Johnson, Eric Michael. "A Natural History of Vampires." Scientific American. 3/27/20. <https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/primate-diaries/a-natural-history-of-vampires/>.
  • Bowen, John. " Gothic Motifs ." British Library. 3/29/20. <https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/gothic-motifs>.
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