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Women’s Agency and the Gothic in Spain and the Americas

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This volume offers a unique transnational and transhistorical exploration of the relationship between women and the Gothic in Spain and the Americas. By examining how women writers have reimagined ...
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This volume has emerged to fulfill two main purposes: Primarily, to constitute the first collaborative work that traces the relationship between the Gothic and Women in Spain and the Americas, but also, to surpass the term ‘Female Gothic,’ coined by Ellen Moers, by transferring the focus towards women and their agency as writers, readers and characters. This volume functions as a manifesto per se to open new avenues into understanding how women have interacted with the Gothic between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries in Spain and the Americas. The question, we determine, is not simply about identity, but rather about agency. We define women’s agency as the total capacity of characters, authors and readers to act freely within a social framework in relation to gothic texts. In our exploration of authorship, we reject the claim that the Gothic is a simplistic literary genre, instead sustaining that the plasticity of the Gothic has enabled it to survive for centuries; by shifting from a genre to a mode, it has surpassed literary forms and invaded all kinds of media: from film to music and merchandise such as clothing and pop culture collectables, fostering an authentic goth fandom.
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Price: £90.00
Pages: 276
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publication Date: 19 May 2026
ISBN: 9781526176721
Format: Hardcover
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance, FICTION / Gothic, FICTION / Hispanic & Latino, Literature: history and criticism, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
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Introduction: Moving Beyond the Female Gothic: Women’s Agency Over Time – Megan DeVirgilis and Sandra García Gutiérrez

Part I Gothic Beginnings: Women and the Nineteenth Century
1 At the Margin of the Margins: Women Reading Gothic in Early-Nineteenth Century Spain – Miriam López Santos
2 Torres y Quiroga’s Gothic Fiction: Destabilizing Nineteenth-Century Argentine Nation-Building Narratives through Violence on Women – Lina Ruiz-Guzmán
3 Marital Rape in a Transatlantic Gothic Context: Juana Manuela Gorriti’s “Una visita infernal” (1867) and Emilia Pardo Bazán’s “Vampiro” (1901) – Megan DeVirgilis

Part II Gothic Herstories: Capitalism, Debt, and Alternative Ways of Knowing
4 Indebted Life, Gothic Mothers: A New Puerto Rican Genealogy in the Short Stories of Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro – Sandra M. Casanova-Vizcaíno
5 Latin American Folk Horror and Ecofeminism: The Short Stories of Mónica Ojeda and Mariana Enriquez – Emily Horton
6 Social Horror and Women’s Subversion in Mayra Montero’s Gothic Narratives – Renata Pontes

Part III (Dis)located Fears: Genetics, Breeding, and Monstrosity
7 Fungal Fears and Botanical Horrors: The Ecogothic Home in Mexican Gothic – Ilse M. Bussing López
8 Schweblin and Rossi: Cultural Anxieties in Gothic Tales of Motherhood – Nadina Olmedo
9 Porous Matter and Anthropophagy in Concha Alós’s Short Stories – Ana Álvarez Guillén

Part IV Hybrid Narratives in Twenty-First Century Gothic
10 Haunted Houses in Gothic Storytelling: In the Dream House (2019) by Carmen Maria Machado and “Biography” (2023) by María Fernanda Ampuero – Inés Ordiz
11 The Feminine Gothic in the Micro-Stories of Patricia Esteban Erlés: Rewriting of the Folk Tale and Exploration of the Feminine Paradigm – Ana Calvo Revilla
12 A Tale of Ecogothic Multihauntings: Mourning and Nurturing in Ethel Frost y el susurro del bosque (2020) by Victoria Francés – Sandra García Gutiérrez
13 Domestic Violence and the Female Gothic in Spain: A Visual/Poetic Approach to Bibiana Collado Cabrera’s Violencia, Sara Morante’s Flor fané, and Sara Mesa’s La familia – Irene Gómez-Castellano