Uncle Silas A Victorian Gothic Mystery of Inheritance, Confinement, and Psychological Terror
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
23.11.2023
Verlag
Sharp InkSeitenzahl
276
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/1,8 cm
Gewicht
597 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-80-283-3612-7
Uncle Silas (1864) is Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's masterly sensation-Gothic novel, a tale of inheritance, confinement, and psychological terror narrated by the young heiress Maud Ruthyn. Set amid decaying country houses and shadowed family histories, the novel refines Gothic extravagance into domestic menace: locked rooms, ambiguous guardianship, criminal rumor, and spiritual unease become instruments of suspense. Its prose is elegant, insinuating, and deliberately claustrophobic, placing it within Victorian sensation fiction while preserving the older Gothic fascination with secrecy, lineage, and moral corruption. Le Fanu, an Irish Protestant writer and journalist, was one of the nineteenth century's most sophisticated architects of supernatural and psychological fear. His experience as a newspaper proprietor, his knowledge of legal and social anxieties, and his Anglo-Irish background all inform the novel's preoccupation with property, guardianship, reputation, and the fragility of female security. Uncle Silas also reflects Le Fanu's gift for making uncertainty itself the central horror. Readers who admire Wilkie Collins, the Brontës' darker moods, or Victorian fiction of suspense will find Uncle Silas indispensable. It is a richly atmospheric, intellectually controlled novel that rewards patience with mounting dread, moral complexity, and one of Gothic literature's most memorable portraits of endangered innocence.
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