![]() This paper will examine the presentation of homoerotic and homoromantic themes in Joseph Le Fanu's Gothic classic Carmilla, specifically Carmilla's identity as a queer woman and how this identity motivates her to not only keep her queerness a secret but to navigate through the world as a creature of marginalization and otherness. This paper will analyse the story's traditional gothic and folklore elements and how Le Fanu subverts Victorian sexual politics through a vampire story. With this, he aims at questioning Victorian sexual politics. ![]() ![]() Le Fanu creates a vampire story by combining traditional gothic elements and Irish folklore. Later we learn that Carmilla is a vampire and all the girls in the surrounding area and Laura become ill because of her visits at night. This story is about a relationship between a young woman, Laura who lives in a remote castle in Austria and a stranger, Carmilla who comes to stay for three months. It is assumed that he was inspired by Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "Cristabel" (1816). Le Fanu's story paved the road for Dracula and other vampire stories. ![]() Carmilla is the only vampire story in this book and it has been accepted as one of the most important works of vampire fiction. ![]() It is within a collection of stories published under the title, "In a Glass Darkly". The story "Carmilla" was written by the Irish writer Sheridan Le Fanu in 1872. ![]()
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