Anahita’s Gothic Blog.. Bruvzz!.. SAFE! :D

At first glance, The Woman In Black would be considered a gothic novel. But looking at the novel closer and in more detail, even though it contains many of the generic conventions of a gothic novel, for example the isolated house and the ghost, it is  actually considered to be a novel belonging to the genre of radical gothic horror.

The contention is that the novel mediates women’s anxieties about motherhood and autonomy during the early 1980’s when the institution of the family in Britain was an ideological battleground. Set mainly in the 1860’s, the novel exposes Victorian hypocrisy towards the unmarried mother, and indirectly probes the quasi-Victorian values promulgated in the 1980’s, during the first term of a Conservative right-wing government.

 Based on a house which is haunted by a woman who had to give up her baby to her sister because she was married out of wed lock, this chilling story is a great read… so I suggest it for all!! … and the play was great too so if you haven’t seen it, I suggest you do.

 

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