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The Gothic Fiction of Adelaida Garc?? Morales: Haunting Words

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The Gothic Fiction of Adelaida Garc?? Morales: Haunting Words

$124.70
 
By highlighting features common to the Gothic classics and the works of Adelaida Garc?a Morales, this monograph aims to put the Gothic on the map in Hispanic Studies.

The Gothic as a literary mode extending well beyond its first proponents in eighteenth-century England is well established in English studies but has been strangely under-used by Hispanists. Now Abigail Lee Six uses it as the paradigm through which to analyse the novels of Adelaida Garc?a Morales; while not suggesting that every novel by this author is a classic Gothic text, she reveals certain constants in the work that can be related to the Gothic, evenin novels which one might not classify as such. Each of the novels studied is paired with an English-language Gothic text, such as Dracula, Frankenstein and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and then read in the lightof it. The focus of each chapter ranges from psychological aspects, such as fear of decay or otherness, or the pressures linked to managing secrets, to more concrete elements such as mountains and frightening buildings, and to keyfigures such as vampires, ghosts, or monsters. This approach sheds new light on how Garc?a Morales achieves probably the most distinguishing feature of her novels: their harrowing atmosphere.

ABIGAIL LEE SIX is Professor of Hispanic Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London.


Author: Abigail Lee Six
Publisher: Tamesis Books
Publication Date: Mar 23, 2006
Number of Pages: 172 pages
Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10: 1855661233
ISBN-13: 9781855661233
 

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