By W. J. McCormack
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Common activities are significant because they constitute the shared life of an intricate if limited social group, less grand than they may have thought, but nevertheless powerful in business, in the professions, in education, in precisely those activities which defined Victorianism. Political historians have quite rightly concentrated on the Famine, the Land War, and Fenianism as the major events of Irish history before Parnell, but these themes necessarily limit our attention to the victims of time.
According to Hamilton Maxwell, Emmet was ‘a determined infidel’, a radicalism in which Dobbin could not sympathize. 2 The mise-en-scène would not be out of place in a novel by Le Fanu, Dobbin’s grandson, for in his fiction unbelief and social disruption engage in uneasy dialogue. In the north of Dublin, St. Mary’s parish is one of the oldest ecclesiastical divisions of the city. In 1810 the rector was Dr Dobbin, who also held the vicarage of Finglas on the outskirts of the town. Among his curates was Thomas Philip Le Fanu, twenty-six years old, whose father was one of those Irish Protestants who had acquired a comfortable sinecure—he was ‘Clerk of the Coast and Examiner of the Coast Accounts for the Outports’.
W. J. McCORMACK School of English The University of Leeds CONTENTS Title Page Dedication PREFACE ABBREVIATIONS PREFACE TO THE LILLIPUT EDITION INTRODUCTION: THE PAST 1. A CLERICAL WORLD 2. A LOST COUNTRY 3. FICTION AND POLITICS 4. LOVE AND DEATH 5. UNCLE SILAS: A HABITATION OF SYMBOLS 6. THE INVISIBLE PRINCE 7. TOWARDS NIGHTFALL APPENDIXES 1. A checklist of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s writings 2. Some problems in the attribution of anonymous fiction 3. M. I. Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, Belfast; the Dufferin and Ava Papers When no source is stated for a manuscript, it may be assumed to be preserved in the Le Fanu Papers.