![]() Reflecting deep-rooted religious anxieties as well as a growing interest in the work of Sweden mystic Emmanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), the stories in the collection are exceptionally grim tales of haunted individuals, retributive ghosts, mysterious pathologies and suicide. Following the traumatic death of his wife in 1858 Le Fanu progressively isolated himself from Dublin society, living the last period of his life in a state of reclusion that earned him the appellative of "Invisible Prince". Published the year before his death, In A Glass Darkly is Le Fanu's most mature work, the final product of an eccentric and tormented personality. ![]() ![]() This thesis analyses three ghost-stories in the collection In A Glass Darkly (1872) by Anglo-Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873): "Green Tea", "The Familiar" and "Mr. ![]()
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