{"title":"GOTHIC ELEMENTS IN THREE WORKS OF EARLY SPANISH ROMANTICISM","authors":"José Manuel Correoso Rodenas, M. Aragón","doi":"10.4067/s0719-51762021000100310","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: \nThe awakening of Gothic in literature in 1764 marked a milestone in the development of \nthe Western literary canon. The inclusion of the supernatural and the horrific provoked the \nend of the reign of Enlightenment and opened the door for Romanticism. In Spain it took a \nwhile longer for the new literary trend to flourish. However, a group of writers who had \npublished during the last decades of the eighteenth century started to include gothic \nelements in their works, creating Enlightenment-Gothic hybrids. Some of these authors \nwere Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Jose Cadalso and Juan Melendez Valdes. Their El \ndelincuente honrado, Noches lugubres, and “A Jovino, el melancolico,” respectively prove \nthat gothic and sublime aesthetics also affected Spanish belles lettres. \n \n Resumen: \nEl surgimiento de la literatura gotica en 1764 supuso un hito en el desarrollo del canon \nliterario occidental. La inclusion de lo sobrenatural y lo terrorifico provoco el final del \nreinado de la Ilustracion y allano el camino al Romanticismo. En Espana, su florecimiento \nse haria esperar algo mas. Sin embargo, un grupo de escritores que habian venido \npublicando desde las ultimas decadas del siglo XVIII comenzaron a incluir elementos \ngoticos en sus obras, creando hibridos entre el espiritu ilustrado y la literatura gotica. \nAlgunos de esos autores fueron Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Jose Cadalso y Juan \nMelendez Valdes. Sus El delincuente honrado, Noches lugubres y “A Jovino, el \nmelancolico”, respectivamente, prueban que las esteticas gotica y sublime ya se habian \nintegrado en las belles lettres espanolas.","PeriodicalId":36445,"journal":{"name":"Nueva Revista del Pacifico","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Nueva Revista del Pacifico","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4067/s0719-51762021000100310","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Abstract:
The awakening of Gothic in literature in 1764 marked a milestone in the development of
the Western literary canon. The inclusion of the supernatural and the horrific provoked the
end of the reign of Enlightenment and opened the door for Romanticism. In Spain it took a
while longer for the new literary trend to flourish. However, a group of writers who had
published during the last decades of the eighteenth century started to include gothic
elements in their works, creating Enlightenment-Gothic hybrids. Some of these authors
were Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Jose Cadalso and Juan Melendez Valdes. Their El
delincuente honrado, Noches lugubres, and “A Jovino, el melancolico,” respectively prove
that gothic and sublime aesthetics also affected Spanish belles lettres.
Resumen:
El surgimiento de la literatura gotica en 1764 supuso un hito en el desarrollo del canon
literario occidental. La inclusion de lo sobrenatural y lo terrorifico provoco el final del
reinado de la Ilustracion y allano el camino al Romanticismo. En Espana, su florecimiento
se haria esperar algo mas. Sin embargo, un grupo de escritores que habian venido
publicando desde las ultimas decadas del siglo XVIII comenzaron a incluir elementos
goticos en sus obras, creando hibridos entre el espiritu ilustrado y la literatura gotica.
Algunos de esos autores fueron Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Jose Cadalso y Juan
Melendez Valdes. Sus El delincuente honrado, Noches lugubres y “A Jovino, el
melancolico”, respectivamente, prueban que las esteticas gotica y sublime ya se habian
integrado en las belles lettres espanolas.