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This title situates Carmilla within its Irish Cultural milieu and treats the text as self-standing rather than as a precursor to Dracula. Unlike other collections of Gothic literature, Costello-Sullivan's work focuses solely on Carmilla.

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Highly recommened.--Choice This welcome edition of Sheridan Le Fanu's classic gothic tale Carmilla frames the original serialized text with an admirable introduction and a series of brilliant essays that both return the vampire tale to its native historical earth and trace its flowering across varied national terrains, expressive genres and cultural traditions.--Joseph Valente, author of The Myth of Manliness in Irish National Culture, 1880-1922

Highly recommened.-- Choice This welcome edition of Sheridan Le Fanu's classic gothic tale Carmilla frames the original serialized text with an admirable introduction and a series of brilliant essays that both return the vampire tale to its native historical earth and trace its flowering across varied national terrains, expressive genres and cultural traditions.-- Joseph Valente, author of The Myth of Manliness in Irish National Culture, 1880-1922

Highly recommened.-- ""Choice"" This welcome edition of Sheridan Le Fanu's classic gothic tale Carmilla frames the original serialized text with an admirable introduction and a series of brilliant essays that both return the vampire tale to its native historical earth and trace its flowering across varied national terrains, expressive genres and cultural traditions.-- ""Joseph Valente, author of The Myth of Manliness in Irish National Culture, 1880-1922""

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Kate Costello-Sullivan is Associate Professor of Modern Irish Literature and the Director of the Irish Literature Program in the English department at Le Moyne College. Her articles have appeared in Working Papers in Irish Studies, Postscript: A Journal of Graduate Criticism and Theory and New Hibernia Review.

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