TY - BOOK AU - Le Fanu,Joseph Sheridan AU - Tracy,Robert TI - In a glass darkly T2 - Oxford world's classics SN - 9780191921155 (ebook) : U1 - 823.8 23 PY - 2020/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English KW - Ireland KW - Fiction N1 - This edition previously issued in print: 1993; Includes bibliographical references N2 - 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 UR - https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199537983.001.0001 ER -