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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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1 de feb. de 2001 · Penguin, Feb 1, 2001 - Fiction - 416 pages. '"The curse—the curse!" I looked up in terror. In the great mirror opposite I saw myself, and right behind, another wicked, fearful self' An encounter...
12 de sept. de 2022 · Gaskell’s tale is told in the first person by the younger brother about his half-brother Gregory. The narrator, who never gives his name, has been the petted child of his mother’s second marriage to a wealthy farmer, William Preston.
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).
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The aim of Gothic Studies is not merely to open a forum for dialogue and cultural criticism, but to provide a specialist journal for scholars working in a field which is today taught or researched in academic institutions around the globe.
1 de may. de 2010 · Published 1 May 2010. Philosophy. Gothic Studies. Elizabeth Gaskell uses Gothic as a symbolic language to explore the dark side of Unitarian thought. She explores, in rationalist terms, evil's origins, effects and remedy, using Gothic tropes as metaphors for humanly created misery.
