In a glass darkly /
Sheridan Le Fanu.
- [New edition] / edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Tracy.
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- 1 online resource (xxxiii, 347 pages).
- Oxford world's classics .
This edition previously issued in print: 1993.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.