Fascist Female Gothic by Heidi Backes
This volume examines the psychology of fascism and its intrinsic relationship with the Gothic through the close study of propagandistic narratives by Spanish fascist women during the 1930s and 1940s. With close readings of women’s magazines, novels and prison diaries, Gothic fear and monstrosity are for the first time showcased as fundamental tropes within the fascist political strategy of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship. As both objects and agents of the fascist regime, the women in charge of the Spanish Women’s Section collaborated with the Catholic Church on a series of magazine columns and educational campaigns, evoking a nightmare landscape rooted in the perceived evils of twentieth-century feminism, and using Gothic motifs to persuade other women to join the fascist cause. By its study of these motifs, Fascist Female Gothic demonstrates the political power of the Gothic, and sounds warning against a return to the rhetoric of fear in the turbulent sociopolitical present.-
History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature 1764-1824
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History of the Gothic: American Gothic
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The Queer Uncanny
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History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature 1825-1914
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Welsh Gothic
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Queer Others in Victorian Gothic
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History of the Gothic: Twentieth-Century Gothic
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Middlebrow Gothic
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Coasts and the Gothic
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Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination
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Theological Monsters
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Postcolonial Gothic Fictions from the Caribbean, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
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The Gothic Ideology
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Metamodern Gothic
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Women's Authorship and the Early Gothic
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Gothic Literary Travel and Tourism
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Servants and the Gothic, 1764-1831
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American Gothic Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature
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South African Gothic
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Gothic Utterance
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Women's Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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Posthuman Gothic
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Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Gothic
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Body Gothic
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The Twilight of the Gothic?
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The Fantastic and European Gothic
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Gothic Invasions
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Stephen King's Gothic
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The Gothic and Catholicism
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Republicanism and the American Gothic
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Shakespearean Gothic
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George Eliot and the Gothic Novel
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Gothic Chapbooks, Bluebooks and Shilling Shockers, 1797-1830
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Gothic Metaphysics
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The Nature of the Beast
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Gothic Contemporaries
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Gothic Remains
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The Brontës as Gothic Writers
Heidi Backes is Professor of Spanish at Missouri State University. She specialises in Spanish Gothic fiction, focusing her latest research on the Gothic literary portrayal of twentieth-century Spanish fascism.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781837724611 |
| ISBN 10 | 183772461X |
| Title | Fascist Female Gothic |
| Author | Heidi Backes |
| Series | Gothic Literary Studies |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of Wales Press |
| Year published | 2027-04-19 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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