Spanish Gothic

Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, and a founding member of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies. His books include Horror: A Literary History (editor; 2016), Horror Film and Affect (2016), Digital Horror (co-editor; 2015) and Body Gothic (2014).

“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)“The book provides a compelling account of how the gothic was able to pervade (or infect) a variety of genres and modes in Spain during this period. He characterises the gothic as transhistorical, transmedial and transgeneric, materialising in romantic literature, didactic fiction … and cinema. … in giving us the most complete account to date (in English, at least) of this mode in Spain, Spanish Gothic also illustrates the transnational nature of the Gothic as it travelled beyond its original ‘homes’.” (Dr. Leon Hunt, Viewfinder Online, bufvc.ac. uk, June, 2017)“Spanish Gothic is an exemplary piece of scholarship that will assuredly become the cornerstone of future studies of gothic cultural production in Spain. It will, moreover, undoubtedly contribute to new transnational histories of gothic as it developed on a global scale from the eighteenth century to today.” (Christina Morin, The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies, Vol. 16, 2017)

• 1. INTRODUCTION: DEFINING AND DELIMITING THE SPANISH GOTHIC.- 2. PART I - FIRST WAVE GOTHIC (1785–1834) - Chapter 1. Imported Terrors and First Genre Hybrids.- 3. Chapter 2. The Early Spanish Gothic Novel (1800–34).- 4. PART II - FROM ROMANTICISM TO THE FIN-DE-SIÈCLE (1834–1900) - Chapter 3. Spanish Romanticism and the Gothic.- 5. Chapter 4. From the 1860s to the Fin-de-Siècle: The Development of the Gothic Short Story.- 6. PART III - MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY GOTHIC LITERATURE (1900–2016) - Chapter 5. The Twentieth Century (1900–75): 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 (1906–2016) - Chapter 7. From Segundo de Chomón 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.