Journal of Romance Studies
Interdisciplinary Research in French, Hispanic, Italian and Portuguese Cultures
Aims & Scope
Published in Association with the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.
The Journal of Romance Studies promotes innovative critical work in the areas of linguistics, literature, performing and visual arts, media, material culture, intellectual and cultural history, critical and cultural theory, psychoanalysis, gender studies, social sciences, and anthropology.
Two monographic issues and one open issue are published each year. The primary focus is on those parts of the world that speak, or have spoken, French, Italian, Spanish or Portuguese but work on other cultures is also included. Articles published in the journal cross national and disciplinary boundaries in order to stimulate new ways of thinking about cultural history and practice.
Subjects: Romance Studies, Literature, Cultural Studies
Forthcoming Issue
Volume 12 • Issue 1 • Spring 2012
Editorial
Abigail Lee Six
Articles
From psychopathology to diabolical evil: Dr Jekyll, Mr Hyde and Jean Renoir
Colin Davis
A gothic motif in Spanish literature: monstrosity in Spanish fiction from Benito Pérez Galdós’s Ángel Guerra (1891) to Javier García Sánchez’s Ella, Drácula (2005)
Abigail Lee Six
Haunting inheritances: persecution and the uncanny in Carmen Boullosa’s novel Antes [Before]
Anna Reid
Permanent hauntings: spectral fantasies and national trauma in Guillermo del Toro’s El espinazo del diablo [The Devil’s Backbone]
Enrique Ajuria Ibarra
Barcelona gothic: Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s La sombra del viento and the omnipresent past
Glennis and Gordon Byron
Review Article
The Spanish gothic
Rocío Rodjter
Notes on Contributors