In a glass darkly
Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan, 1814-18732008
Book
These five stories are told by Dr Hesselius, a 'metaphysical' doctor, the forerunner of the modern psychiatrist, who is willing to consider ghosts both as real and as hallucinatory obsessions. Le Fanu drew on the Gothic tradition, Irish folklore and on contemporary social and political anxieties.
Main title:
In a glass darkly / Sheridan Le Fanu.
Work:
Edition:
[New ed.] / edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Tracy.
Imprint:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Collation:
xxxiii, 347 p. ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
This ed. originally published: 1993.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9780199537983 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.8
Language:
English
BRN:
2269800