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Elizabeth Gaskell’s thrilling Gothic tales mixed the real and the supernatural to ghostly, compelling effect. Although she was praised by her contemporaries and publishers, her ghost stories were considered an attempt to entertain the public and satisfy its need for adventure and mystery.
31 de oct. de 2018 · Elizabeth Gaskell’s chilling Gothic tales blend the real and the supernatural to eerie, compelling effect.
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.
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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.
27 de ago. de 2021 · Gaskell and the Gothic. The ‘Gothic’ , as a literary term, is as malleable and slippery as the short story. It operates in liminal spaces, in the interstices between the real and the fantastic, the psychologically stable and the emotionally disturbed, often oscillating between these extremes.
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,...
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).
