Gothic tales
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.
- Subjects
- Published
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London :
New York
2000.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Physical Description
- xxxvi, 366 pages ; 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.