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Gaskell Gothic Tales Analysis. English novel writer Elizabeth Gaskell wrote some of the most popular ghost stories of her time; thrilling and gruesome but always with an inner message. There’s something about a Gothic tale that goes well with the autumn months particularly.
14 de ago. de 2000 · Laura Kranzler's introduction discusses how Gaskell's tales, with their ghostly doublings and transgressive passions, show the Gothic underside of female identity, domestic relations and male authority. This edition also contains a chronology, further reading and explanatory notes. Show more.
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Gaskell’s Gothic fi ction expresses with deep pessimism the price of irrational habits of thought and social structures, blending didactic tale with tragedy. In ‘Th e Crooked Branch’, a loving family is the source of horror, and Gaskell produces a stringent analysis of dominant ideologies which inform the domestic sphere.
1 de feb. de 2001 · 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,...
31 de oct. de 2018 · Elizabeth Gaskell’s chilling Gothic tales blend the real and the supernatural to eerie, compelling effect.
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It focuses on three main ideas: the use of pagan traditions and the importance of names in her gothic tales (Chapter One); the incorporation of her Unitarian beliefs in stories depicting spiritually and sexually "Fallen Women" (Chapter Two); and the various types of female friendships found in her short fiction (Chapter Three).
