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Blanchemain Faucon Laure, « Aoife Mary Dempsey. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2022, 203 p. », Caliban, ID : 10670/1.4s6sm9
Opening with Le Fanu’s place in Irish Protestant Gothic, Aoife Mary Dempsey’s reassessment of the author’s works adopts a clear post-colonial stance. From the start, Le Fanu’s novels and stories are anchored within the context of the rebellious desire to challenge the coloniser’s control and to reassert an Irish identity after the Act of Union and the closure of the Irish Parliament which followed the 1798 rebellion of the United Irishmen. The book places Le Fanu at the centre of that process...