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Mary Shelley's Gothic Tales in the Keepsake

A Digital Scholarly Edition created by Caroline Winter

abduction

Source:

Tracy, The Gothic Novel

Source Page:

196

Ferdinando Eboli

Date of Publication:

1828

Motifs:

doubles
impersonation
abduction
usurpation
war
banditti
imprisonment
forced marriage
fraternal rivalry

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The Evil Eye

Date of Publication:

1829

Motifs:

vampire
orientalism
Evil Eye
revenants
debt of honour
parentage
war
inheritance
abduction

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Transformation

Date of Publication:

1830

Motifs:

blood freezing (figurative)
sealing a contract with blood
tale telling
doubles
abduction
inheritance
luxury
profligacy
shipwreck
demon
body-snatching

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Mary Shelley's Gothic Tales in The Keepsake by Caroline Winter is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, 2019.

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