Gothic tales

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, 1810-1865

Book - 2000

"An encounter with the supernatural in an everyday setting accentuates its strangeness; a truth used to eerie effect in Gaskell's Gothic tales. A portrait turned to the wall, a hidden manuscript, a mysterious child that lives on the freezing moors, a doppelganger formed by a women's bitter curse: all of these things hint at male tyranny and woman as avenging angel - or devil." "Gaskell was fascinated by the dualities in women's lives and the way in which fact and fiction merge. 'Disappearances', a mix of gossip, legend and fact, relates stories of mysterious vanishings, 'Lois the Witch', a novella based on an account of the Salem witch hunts, shows how sexual desire and jealousy lead to comm...unal hysteria and persecution, while 'The Grey Woman' explores a common Gothic theme, the way in which the ghosts of the past always return to haunt us."--Jacket.

Saved in:

1st Floor Show me where

FICTION/Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
0 / 1 copies available
Location Call Number   Status
1st Floor FICTION/Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn Due Apr 9, 2024
Subjects
Published
London : New York : Penguin 2000.
Language
English
Main Author
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, 1810-1865 (-)
Other Authors
Laura Kranzler (-)
Physical Description
xxxvi, 366 p. ; 20 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN
9780140437416
  • Disappearances
  • The old nurse's story
  • The squire's story
  • The Poor Clare
  • The doom of the Griffiths
  • Lois the witch
  • The crooked branch
  • Curious, if true
  • The grey woman.