Madness, Love and Tragedy in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Spain

Edited By: Marta Manrique Gomez

£39.99

This book analyzes madness in masterpieces of 19th and 20th-century Spanish literature. It explores how conceptions of madness intersect with love, religion, and politics in works by writers like Galdós, Unamuno, Pardo Bazán, and others.

How do Spanish writers of the 19th and 20th century define and represent madness, a basic and controversial aspect of world culture, and how do…

How do Spanish writers of the 19th and 20th century define and represent madness, a basic and controversial aspect of world culture, and how do the different conceptions of madness intersect with love, religion, politics, and other literary themes in Spanish society? This multi-author book analyzes the theme of madness in formative masterpieces of Spanish literature of the 19th and 20th century through the use of relevant critical and theoretical approaches. In this context, authors studied in this book include Juan Valera, Leopoldo Alas Clarín, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Caterina Albert, Benito Pérez Galdós, Miguel de Unamuno, and Juan Goytisolo, among others.

Professor Marta Manrique Gómez graduated from McGill University in Canada, where she received MA and PhD degrees in Hispanic Studies. After completing her studies, she was awarded with the K.B. Jenckes Doctoral Prize, the Spanish Embassy Book Prize (Doctoral, and Master), the Victor Ouimette Memorial Prize, and the Dean’s Honour List, among others. Prior to her arrival at Middlebury College, she taught at McGill University, and Concordia University. Dr Manrique Gómez has specialized in modern and contemporary Spanish peninsular literature and culture, and has written and published on a wide variety of research topics, including literary polemics, national identity, intellectual history, short narrative, and theory with a transatlantic approach. Her publications include the book La recepción de Calderón en el siglo XIX.