Women's agency and the Gothic in Spain and the Americas /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	DeVirgilis, Megan (Editor), Gutiérrez, Sandra García (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2026.
Subjects:	Gothic fiction (Literary genre), Spanish > History and criticism. Spanish fiction > Women authors > History and criticism. Gothic fiction (Literary genre), Spanish

Table of Contents:

Introduction: moving beyond the female Gothic to center women's agency over time / Megan DeVirgilis and Sandra Garc̕a Gutǐrrez
At the margin of the margins: women reading Gothic in early-nineteenth-century Spain / Miriam L̤pez Santos
Torres y Quiroga's gothic fiction: destabilizing nineteenth-century Argentine nation-building narratives through violence on women / Lina Ruiz-Guzm̀n
Marital rape in a transatlantic gothic context: Juana Manuela Gorriti's "Una visita infernal" (1867) and Emilia Pardo Baz̀n's "Vampiro" (1901) / Megan DeVirgilis
Indebted life, gothic mothers: a new Puerto Rican genealogy in the short stories of Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro / Sandra M. Casanova-Vizca̕no
Latin American folk horror and ecofeminism: the short stories of M̤nica Ojeda and Mariana Enr̕quez / Emily Horton
Social horror and women's subversion in Mayra Montero's gothic narratives / Renata Pontes
Fungal fears and botanical horrors: the ecogothic home in Mexican Gothic / Ilse M. Bussing L̤pez
Gothic tales of motherhood: cultural anxieties in Schweblin and Rossi / Nadina Olmedo
Porous matter and anthropophagy in Concha Al̤s's short stories / Ana ℓlvarez Guilľn
Haunted houses in gothic storytelling: *In the Dream House* (2019) by Carmen Maria Machado and "Biography" (2023) by Mar̕a Fernanda Ampuero / Iňs Ordiz
The feminine Gothic in the micro-stories of Patricia Esteban Erľs: rewriting of the folk tale and exploration of the feminine paradigm / Ana Calvo Revilla
A tale of ecogothic multihauntings: mourning and nurturing in *Ethel Frost and the Whisper of the Forest* (2020) by Victoria Frančs / Sandra Garc̕a Gutǐrrez
Domestic violence and the female Gothic in Spain: a visual/poetic approach to Bibiana Collado Cabrera's *Violencia*, Sara Morante's *Flor faň*, and Sara Mesa's *La familia* / Irene G̤mez-Castellano