Irrational Maps: The Gothic misterios of Madrid and Barcelona Pubblico
Delano, Cristina (2010)
Abstract
Abstract
Irrational Maps: The Gothic misterios of Madrid and
Barcelona
By Cristina Delano
The dissertation analyzes the misterio's use of the Gothic
mode in an expression of the
anxieties endemic to urban life and modernity. The Spanish
misterios were first inspired
by Eugène Sue's Les Mystères de Paris, and are
representative of an era when Spanish
readers were avid consumers of European literature. The
misterios portray urban spaces
as sinister and often uncanny by revealing the depravity and
intrigue beneath the façade
of the rational modern city. In the dissertation I analyze four
misterios: Los misterios de
Madrid by Juan Martínez Villergas (1844-1845), Los
misterios de Barcelona by José
Nicasio Milà de Roca (1844), Los misterios de Madrid by
Antonio Muñoz Molina (1992)
and Los misterios de Barcelona by Antonio- Prometeo Moya
(2006). In my discussion of
the nineteenth-century misterios, I argue that the novels
employ the Gothic to explore
issues of political legitimacy and the transition from the
antiguo régimen to a modern
nation-state. The misterio genre returns at the end of the
twentieth century and early
twenty-first century, and while these novels self-consciously and
often comically adopt
the tropes of the nineteenth-century misterios, they also
reveal the anxieties brought
about by Spain's place in the globalized world as well as the
lingering legacy of
Francoism.
The Gothic is a discourse that expresses unease about the
consequences of modernity. I
propose that the Gothic mode provides a forum for the Spanish
misterio writers to
explore the traumas of history while also navigating the
trepidation felt towards progress.
Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction 1
Irrational Maps: The Gothic misterios of
Madrid and Barcelona
Chapter One 36
Carlist Specters and moderado Monsters in
Juan Martínez Villergas's Los misterios de Madrid
(1844-1845)
Chapter Two 79
The Threat of Revolution: Colonial Others and
Family Romance in José Nicasio Milà de Roca's
Los misterios de Barcelona (1844)
Chapter Three 119
Corruption and Conjuration in Antonio Muñoz Molina's
Los misterios de Madrid (1992)
Chapter Four 157
Ghosts of the Past and Gothic Families in
Antonio-Prometeo Moya's Los misterios de Barcelona (2006)
Conclusion 205
Bibliography 209
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