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Gothic Tales Elizabeth Gaskell

Gothic Tales By Elizabeth Gaskell

Gothic Tales by Elizabeth Gaskell


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Summary

The stories in this collection combine realism and fantasy. The themes are familiar from Gaskell's novels, but their treatment is revealingly different, ranging from ghost stories and comic fantasy, to a realistic tale of 17th-century witch trials.

Gothic Tales Summary

Gothic Tales by Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell's chilling Gothic tales blend the real and the supernatural to eerie, compelling effect. 'Disappearances', inspired by local legends of mysterious vanishings, mixes gossip and fact; 'Lois the Witch', a novella based on an account of the Salem witch hunts, shows how sexual desire and jealousy lead to hysteria; while in 'The Old Nurse's Story' a mysterious child roams the freezing Northumberland moors. Whether darkly surreal, such as 'The Poor Clare', where an evil doppelganger is formed by a woman's bitter curse, or mischievous like 'Curious, if True', a playful reworking of fairy tales, all the stories in this volume form a stark contrast to the social realism of Gaskell's novels, revealing a darker and more unsettling style of writing.

About Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-65) wrote her first novel, MARY BARTON, in 1848 as a distraction from her sorrow at the death of her only son in infancy. It won the attention of Dickens and was followed by 5 other full-length novels as well as numerous short stories and novellas.


Laura Kranzler has written on Mary Shelley and Virginia Woolf and has published a novel.

Additional information

GOR001864298
9780140437416
014043741X
Gothic Tales by Elizabeth Gaskell
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
2000-08-14
416
N/A
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