The Last Heir of Castle Connor

The Last Heir of Castle Connor
Author: Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 47
Release: 2020-12-08
Genre: Art
ISBN:

This book details the story of the O'Connors, an Irish family. "The Last Heir of Castle Connor," is a non-supernatural story about the decline and expropriation of Ireland's ancient Catholic gentry under the Protestant Ascendancy.

Postcolonial Settings in the Fiction of James Clarence Mangan, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker

Postcolonial Settings in the Fiction of James Clarence Mangan, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker
Author: Richard Jorge
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2023-10-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3031403916

This book explores how three Anglo-Irish writers, J.C. Mangan, J.S. Le Fanu and Bram Stoker, use settings in their short fictions to recreate, depict and confront Ireland’s colonial situation in the nineteenth century. This study provides an innovative approach by targeting a genre (the short story) which has not been explored in its entirety— certainly not within nineteenth century Ireland - much less using a postcolonial approach to the short story. Added to this is the fact that it analyses how these writers used settings as an anticolonial tool. To do so, the book is divided into two major sections, an analysis of Irish settings and non-Irish ones. It works on the premise that all three writers used the idea of displacement to target colonialism and its effects on Irish society. In short, this book addresses a gap in scholarship, as the Irish Gothic short story as a decolonizing tool has not been sufficiently and globally studied.

The Oxford History of the Novel in English

The Oxford History of the Novel in English
Author: John Kucich
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
Total Pages: 582
Release: 2012
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0199560617

This series presents a comprehensive, global and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written ... by a international team of scholars ... -- dust jacket.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Author: Aoife Mary Dempsey
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2022-01-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 178683829X

This book considers the fiction of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–73) in its original material and cultural contexts of the early-to-mid Victorian period in Ireland. Le Fanu’s longstanding relationship with the Dublin University Magazine, a popular literary and political journal, is crucial in the examination of his work; likewise, his fiction is considered as part of a wider surge of supernatural, historical and antiquarian activity by Irish Protestants in the period following the Act of Union between Great Britain and Ireland (1801). This study discusses in detail Le Fanu’s habit of writing and re-writing stories – a practice that has engendered much confusion and consternation – while posthumous collections of his work are compared with original publications to demonstrate the importance of these material and cultural contexts. In new critical readings of aspects of Le Fanu’s best-known fiction, light is cast on some of his overlooked work through recontextualisation.

The Purcell Papers

The Purcell Papers
Author: Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher: tredition
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2022-05-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 3347643909

The Purcell Papers - Sheridan Le Fanu - The Purcell Papers (1880) are a collection of thirteen Gothic, supernatural, historical and humorous short stories by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–73) originally written for the Dublin University Magazine. The first twelve were written between 1838–40 and purport to be extracts from the 'MS. Papers of the late Rev. Francis Purcell, of Drumcoolagh', a Catholic priest. The thirteenth and last tale on the collection, Billy Maloney's Taste of Love and Glory dates from 1850 and is not connected with Father Purcell. The tales comprise: Vol 1 The Ghost and the Bone-Setter (first published January 1838) The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh (March 1838) The Last Heir of Castle Connor (June 1838) The Drunkard's Dream (August 1838) Vol 2 Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess (November 1838) The Bridal of Carrigvarah (April 1839) Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter (May 1839) Scraps of Hibernian Ballads (June 1839) Vol 3 Jim Sulivan's Adventures in the Great Snow (July 1839) A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family (October 1839) An Adventure of Hardress Fitzgerald, a Royalist Captain (February 1840) The Quare Gander (October 1840) Billy Maloney's Taste of Love and Glory (June 1850)

The Purcell Papers Volume I.

The Purcell Papers Volume I.
Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher: Publio Kiadó Kft.
Total Pages: 66
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9633819113

A noble Huguenot family, owning considerable property in Normandy, the Le Fanus of Caen, were, upon the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, deprived of their ancestral estates of Mandeville, Sequeville, and Cresseron; but, owing to their possessing influential relatives at the court of Louis the Fourteenth, were allowed to quit their country for England, unmolested, with their personal property. We meet with John Le Fanu de Sequeville and Charles Le Fanu de Cresseron, as cavalry officers in William the Third's army; Charles being so distinguished a member of the King's staff that he was presented with William's portrait from his master's own hand. He afterwards served as a major of dragoons under Marlborough. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, William Le Fanu was the sole survivor of his family. He married Henrietta Raboteau de Puggibaut, the last of another great and noble Huguenot family, whose escape from France, as a child, by the aid of a Roman Catholic uncle in high position at the French court, was effected after adventures of the most romantic danger