Sheridan Le Fanu

narrative. For instance, within the gothic/horror genre, various authors including Sheridan Le Fanu decide to “historicize” the text by incorporating certain characters, and behaviors to reveal political, and social commentary of their societies’ time. As previously stated, within literature, the historical context can help us understand the political commentary towards that period’s societal conditions. Therefore, in Sheridan Le fanu’s story “Carmilla”, the work was a political allegory towards the relationship

Carmilla season 2... Or how to disappoint your fandom in episodes of 7 minutes or less I should start by saying that Carmilla is a webseries based on the homonymous novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Its format is a vlog from Laura Hollis' perspective. Laura is a student at Silas University, a fictional institution located in Styria, Austria, where weird things happen without explanation. The story is set in motion when Laura's roommate, Betty, disappears after a party. Laura is decided to find

are radically Other, an ‘undead’ species which preys on the human for survival. As such, the vampire has come to embody a multiplicity of meanings, to represent various social anxieties. This is indeed the case with the eponymous vampire of J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s ‘Carmilla’ (1872), whose monstrosity derives not least from the fact that she female. Similarly, the title characters of Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories ‘Berenicë’ (1835) and ‘Ligeia’ (1838), though not actual vampires, are vampiric figures

literature and films as well as folklore. In 1819, John William Polidori published his short story, The Vampyre, which opened up many minds to the concept of male vampires and their gift and ability to seduce women. Shortly after, in 1872, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu introduced the literary world to Carmilla, one of the first vampire novels of its kind. The novel clearly illustrated the power of female vampire seduction. The Vampyre is a novel, which sets the tone for many vampire stories to come. The power

During the Victorian Era (1819-1901), western society went through an abundance of change. It was mostly defined by a boom in technology, commonly known and referred to as the Industrial Revolution. Socially however, the rules and laws were strict. Female sexuality was policed in the sense of a general social erasure, whereas male sexuality was viewed as a reproductive tool. This lead to the further criminalization of male homosexuality beyond its assumed sinful nature. The most famous case of

story Carmilla, is written in first person narrative as the antagonist is explaining her occurrences with the evil protagonist of the story; Carmilla. Camilla has a strange desire for death as she states: “Why, you must die–everyone must die” (Le Fanu 11). Le Fanu show uses the main gothic concept death, all while portraying vampirism through Carmilla. The death of young girls in his story occurs four times, one of which is immediately introduced at the beginning of the story, when the general’s daughter

of blood flowed from the severed neck. The body and head were next placed on a pile of wood, and reduced to ashes, which were thrown upon the river and borne away, and that territory has never since been plagued by the visits of a vampire. (Le Fanu 336) Carmilla’s execution-style slaying

certain framework established by other writers or generic conventions, but vary aspects of it in significant ways” (Friedman 155). Sheridan Le Fanu’s, Carmilla, Bram Stoker’s, Dracula and Elizabeth Kostova’s, The Historian, clearly engage in this intertextual exchange, as evidenced by their use of narrative structure and striking character parallels. Published in 1872, Le Fanu relates the story of Carmilla from a first person point of view, through four distinct perspectives. The first narrator, an unnamed

In the novel Carmilla written by Sheridan Le Fanu the setting when the crash happens at night expresses the gothic aspects of the book and the character development. Carmilla is a gothic story that introduces Laura, a young teenager who suddenly develops a relationship with lovely Carmilla who is exposed to be a vampire. The gothic aspects are developed by the note Carmilla’s father receives from the General, the moonlight in the night, and the strange isolated location where Carmilla lives On the

relation to cultural contexts in which they exist as being presented to the reader through the gender behaviour and sexuality that is portrayed through the texts. Vampire stories always seem to involve some aspect of sexuality and power. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu wrote Carmilla. It was first published in 1872 as part of the collection of short stories titles ‘In a Glass Darkly.’ Carmilla predates the publishing of Dracula by 25 years. Laura, who is also one of the