Abstract

Abstract: Gothic influences were pervasive in Spain’s romantic fiction during the mid-nineteenth century, particularly in the development of plot devices and characters, as critics such as Xavier Aldana Reyes and Abigail Lee Six have demonstrated. The Gothic-tinged short stories selected in this study, “Luisa” (1835; 1867) by Eugenio de Ochoa, “La dama de Amboto” (1858) by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, and “El monte de las ánimas” (1861) by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, all present examples of vengeful ghosts who haunt those responsible for their violent demise. By tracing the characterizations of these spirits across these three different stories from Spanish Romanticism and Post-Romanticism, this article reveals their gendered presentations of revenge, similarities in the portrayals of the spirits and their motives, and an analogous, frightening plot arc that underscores the conventions of the era and the popularity of the Gothic mode. Resumen: Las influencias góticas son abundantes en la ficción romántica española de la mitad del siglo XIX, especialmente por el uso de tramas y personajes fantásticos, críticos como demuestran Xavier Aldana Reyes y Abigail Lee Six. Los cuentos teñidos por aspectos góticos, “Luisa” (1835; 1867) de Eugenio de Ochoa, “La dama de Amboto” (1858) de Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y “El monte de las ánimas” (1861) de Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, presentan ejemplos de fantasmas vengativos que aparecen a los responsables de su fallecimiento violento. A través de las caracterizaciones de estos fantasmas a lo largo de estos tres cuentos españoles del Romanticismo y el Pos-Romanticismo, este artículo indaga en la representación de género en cuanto a la venganza, los fantasmas y sus motivos comunes, y una trama típica que subraya las convenciones de la época y la popularidad del modo gótico.

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