Title:
Gothic tales / Elizabeth Gaskell ; edited with an introduction and notes by Laura Kranzler.
ISBN:
9780140437416
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Publication Information:
London : New York : Penguin, 2000.
Physical Description:
xxxvi, 366 pages ; 20 cm.
Contents:
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.
Summary:
"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 communal 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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OCLC Number:
ocm48032948
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