Hesselius sets out to edit accounts of mysterious, enigmatically supernatural occurrences. In the frame story, the medical secretary of the fictitious German physician Dr. It transposes the gothic into domestic or urban settings, adding an interest in new medical, specifically psychological, theories. Written in the wake of the so-called Sensational Sixties, In a Glass Darkly forms part of the Victorian sensation genre popularized by Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and Ellen Wood. This collection of stories forms a unified whole, held together by a frame story that resurfaces at the beginning and end of each consecutive episode. The first story in Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s sensation collection In a Glass Darkly. By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on September 12, 2022
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