Spanish Gothic

National Identity, Collaboration and Cultural Adaptation

Xavier Aldana Reyes

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781137306005
• eBook ISBN:
  9781137306012
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Film & Video

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-siècle, 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.

Table of contents

• Dedication
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Chapter 1: Introduction: Defining and Delimiting the Spanish Gothic
• Part I: First Wave Gothic (1785–1834)
• Part II: From Romanticism to the Fin-de-siècle (1834–1900)
• Part III: Modern and Contemporary Gothic Literature (1900–2016)
• Part IV: Spanish Gothic Cinema (1906–2016)
• Index