This book presents the first English introduction to the broad history of the Gothic mode in Spain. It focuses on key literary periods, such as Romanticism, the fin-de-si?cle, spiritualist writings of the early-twentieth century, and the cinematic and literary booms of the 1970s and 2000s. With illustrative case studies, Aldana Reyes demonstrates how the Gothic mode has been a permanent yet ever-shifting fixture of the literary and cinematic landscape of Spain since the late-eighteenth century. He proposes that writers and filmmakers alike welcomed the Gothic as a liberating and transgressive artistic language.
1. INTRODUCTION: DEFINING AND DELIMITING THE SPANISH GOTHIC.- 2.?PART I -?FIRST WAVE GOTHIC (17851834) -?Chapter 1. Imported Terrors and First Genre Hybrids.- 3.?Chapter 2. The Early Spanish Gothic Novel (180034).- 4.?PART II -?FROM ROMANTICISM TO THE FIN-DE-SI?CLE (18341900) -?Chapter 3. Spanish Romanticism and the Gothic.- 5.?Chapter 4. From the 1860s to the Fin-de-Si?cle: The Development of the Gothic Short Story.- 6.?PART III -?MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY GOTHIC LITERATURE (19002016) -?Chapter 5. The Twentieth Century (190075): Modernist Spiritualism and Political Gothic.- 7.?Chapter 6. From the Death of Franco to the Present: The Establishment of Horror and the Gothic Auteur.- 8. PART IV -?SPANISH GOTHIC CINEMA (19062016) -?Chapter 7. From Segundo de Chom?n to the Rise and Fall of Fantaterror.- 9.?Chapter 8. The Post-Millennial Horror Revival: Auteurs, Gothic (Dis)Continuities and National History.- 10.?Conclusion: A Language of Collaboration and Liberation.?
Spanish Gothic is a valuable and revealing introduction to an exotic locale whose sun-drenched vistas would make it an unlikely place for gothic gloom, and yet Aldana Reyes shows how and why it has prospered even there. (Dejan Ognjanovic, Rue Morgue, Vol.178, September-October, 2017)
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