Why The Gothic Keeps Gaslighting Us
Imaginary Worlds
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The History of Gaslighting
The term comes from a gothic play, which was later adapted into a famous movie with Ingrid Bergman. Gaslight has to do with the gaslight system of Victorian London that they live in. It's interesting that that term is then used as a way of signalling, well, you know, not being heard, being manipulated, being oppressed. But it has a longer tradition, the idea of the female heroine being cheated out of their inheritance by a manipulative, normally male character is really old. And unfortunately, timeless.
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