January 6, 2023
Associate Professor of Spanish, Dr. Emily Clark's latest article is published in the journal Hispania 105.4 (2022). The article is titled "Arranged Marriages and Imprisonment: The Domestic Gothic Horrors of Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda's La Baronesa de Joux (1844) and Dolores (1851).
Cuban writer Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (1814–73) produced a number of texts that show clear Gothic characteristics as part of Hispanic Romanticism in the mid-nineteenth century. Utilizing La baronesa de Joux and Dolores, two of her tradiciones (traditions), which are stories or short novels with fantastic elements, I examine how Gómez de Avellaneda employs techniques and tropes associated with women’s Gothic writing to communicate proto-feminist messages and to reveal the potential dangers of marriage and domesticity.