Spanish Laughter

Antonio Calvo Maturana is Associate Professor of History at the University of Malaga and principal investigator of the international research team ‘Humour and Its Sense: Discourses and Images of the Laughable from the Enlightenment until Today’. His area of expertise is European Cultural History during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with a particular interest in Spain. He is the author of four books, among them: Impostores: sombras en la España de las luces (Cátedra, 2015); ‘Cuando manden los que obedecen’: la clase política e intelectual de la España preliberal, 1780-1808 (2013); ‘Aquel que manda las conciencias’: Iglesia y adoctrinamiento político en la Monarquía Hispánica preconstitucional, 1780-1808 (2012); María Luisa de Parma: reina de España, esclava del mito (2007, 2ª ed. Forthcoming).

“This volume is a fresh and significant contribution not only to the overall field of Hispanic Studies, but to numerous other disciplines such as humor studies, gender studies, journalism and studies in the Enlightenment. The editor and authors have presented an interdisciplinary mosaic that represents more than two centuries of humorous testimony.” Leticia Villamediana González, University of Warwick

• List of IllustrationsIntroductionAntonio Calvo MaturanaChapter 1. When Spaniards defied gravity: humor, seriousness and identity in Eighteenth Century SpainAntonio Calvo MaturanaChapter 2. Disciplinary humour in the public sphere: the rhetorics of gender satire in José Clavijo y Fajardo's El pensadorSally-Ann KittsChapter 3. "La vieja y la niña: Women's humour in the comedies of María Rosa Gálvez"Elizabeth Franklin LewisChapter 4. When Women are on Top. Humour, Politics and Pornography in Goya's SwingsJavier MoscosoChapter 5. Goya´s Caprichos and Critical HumourManuel Álvarez JuncoChapter 6. Satire and anti-liberal public opinion in Cadiz during the Cortes (1811-1813)Gonzalo Butrón PridaChapter 7. Humour, translation, and gender in 18th and 19th century Spain and MexicoCatherine JaffeChapter 8. Humour in Larra´s political analysis on Absolutism (1828-1833)José María Ferri CollChapter 9. 'Long Live the Joke': Political Satire and Humour through the Valencian Newspaper El Mole (1837)Alejandro Llinares PlanellsChapter 10. Monochatus non est pietas. Anticlerical humour and political violence, c. 1750-1840Gregorio AlonsoChapter 11. Laughter, Gender and the politics of celebrity in fin-de-siècle Spain: on Emilia Pardo BazánIsabel BurdielChapter 12. El Gran Bvfón, an illustrated magazine: Humour and caricature in Spain at the beginning of the 20th centuryMiguel Ángel Gamonal TorresChapter 13. Artistic Parody, Political criticism and Spanish Humour (ca. 1900)Carlos ReyeroChapter 14. The "Moor", the "Russian", and other invaders. Satirical representations of national otherness in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39)Xosé M. Núñez SeixasChapter 15. Smile for the Homeland. Humour and gender representations in radio programs during the first Franco regime (1939-1959)Sergio Blanco FajardoChapter 16. The developmentalist cinema of the sixties and the seventies. Archetypes of gender, social change and the "paleto" and "destape" phenomenaDolores Ramos PalomoChapter 17. From classic to transgressive humour: The transformation of female humour in social mediaNatalia Meléndez MalavéConclusions