![]() ![]() ![]() His male characters in particular suffer from guilty consciences, and suicide is a frequent fate. His characters frequently suffer from "brain fevers" and other maladies that were the subject of intense debate in England, continental Europe, and America. His fiction also illustrates the emerging medical specialty of neurology, although Le Fanu's later writings are more illustrative of his interest in the mystical works of Emanuel Swedenborg. ![]() Le Fanu's works should be appreciated for the insights he provides into the psychology of his characters his fiction was written prior to what historians of psychology date as the formal establishment of the discipline in 1879, which occurred after his death. Excepting "Green Tea" and "Carmilla," Sheridan Le Fanu's fiction is generally neglected by modern-day readers, yet his work reveals much information about the conduct of life in nineteenth century Ireland and England. ![]()
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