Overview

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 Gothic conventions, the book delves into the intersection of gender, culture, and fear. It highlights how themes such as domestic abuse, alienation, and death have been transformed over time, with particular attention to feminist perspectives and shifting degrees of agency. Contributors analyse a diverse range of authors, from the 19th century to the present, revealing how women's Gothic narratives challenge societal norms and offer new possibilities for empowerment. Exploring historical, ecological, and cultural concerns, this volume is an essential resource for anyone interested in the evolving role of women in the Gothic.

Full Product Details

Author:   Megan DeVirgilis ,  Sandra García Gutiérrez
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.566kg
ISBN:  

9781526176721

ISBN 10:   1526176726
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   19 May 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Not yet available, will be POD  
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Table of Contents

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 -- .

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Megan DeVirgilis is Associate Professor of Spanish at Morgan State University Sandra Garca Gutierrez is Junior Distinguished Professor Beatriz Galindo at the University of Len

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