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Damas de lo extraño: Siete escritoras de gótico y terror
Mary Shelley, Rosa Mulholland, Emma Frances Dawson, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Madeline Yale Wynne, Violet Hunt, Vernon Lee. Es evidente que hoy la literatura de terror ganó una centralidad que hasta hace unas décadas no tenía. (...) Algo está sucediendo en los territorios imaginarios de Latinoamérica. Volver a visitar lo que otras autoras, en otras épocas y en otras lenguas, tuvieron para decir en relación al terror es un modo de indagar en ese nuevo terror que estamos viendo surgir y replicarse en nuestro continente.
Una compilación de Teresita Pumará con prólogo de Juan Mattio que nos llevan de recorrido por los territorios macabros que describieron estas pioneras del gótico y del terror.
Una compilación de Teresita Pumará con prólogo de Juan Mattio que nos llevan de recorrido por los territorios macabros que describieron estas pioneras del gótico y del terror.
152 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 15, 2023
About the author
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
2,483 books9,198 followersMary Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, often known as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, travel writer, and editor of the works of her husband, Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. She was the daughter of the political philosopher William Godwin and the writer, philosopher, and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.
Mary Shelley was taken seriously as a writer in her own lifetime, though reviewers often missed the political edge to her novels. After her death, however, she was chiefly remembered only as the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley and as the author of Frankenstein. It was not until 1989, when Emily Sunstein published her prizewinning biography Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality, that a full-length scholarly biography analyzing all of Shelley's letters, journals, and works within their historical context was published.
The well-meaning attempts of Mary Shelley's son and daughter-in-law to "Victorianise" her memory through the censoring of letters and biographical material contributed to a perception of Mary Shelley as a more conventional, less reformist figure than her works suggest. Her own timid omissions from Percy Shelley's works and her quiet avoidance of public controversy in the later years of her life added to this impression.
The eclipse of Mary Shelley's reputation as a novelist and biographer meant that, until the last thirty years, most of her works remained out of print, obstructing a larger view of her achievement. She was seen as a one-novel author, if that. In recent decades, however, the republication of almost all her writings has stimulated a new recognition of its value. Her voracious reading habits and intensive study, revealed in her journals and letters and reflected in her works, is now better appreciated. Shelley's recognition of herself as an author has also been recognized; after Percy's death, she wrote about her authorial ambitions: "I think that I can maintain myself, and there is something inspiriting in the idea". Scholars now consider Mary Shelley to be a major Romantic figure, significant for her literary achievement and her political voice as a woman and a liberal.
Mary Shelley was taken seriously as a writer in her own lifetime, though reviewers often missed the political edge to her novels. After her death, however, she was chiefly remembered only as the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley and as the author of Frankenstein. It was not until 1989, when Emily Sunstein published her prizewinning biography Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality, that a full-length scholarly biography analyzing all of Shelley's letters, journals, and works within their historical context was published.
The well-meaning attempts of Mary Shelley's son and daughter-in-law to "Victorianise" her memory through the censoring of letters and biographical material contributed to a perception of Mary Shelley as a more conventional, less reformist figure than her works suggest. Her own timid omissions from Percy Shelley's works and her quiet avoidance of public controversy in the later years of her life added to this impression.
The eclipse of Mary Shelley's reputation as a novelist and biographer meant that, until the last thirty years, most of her works remained out of print, obstructing a larger view of her achievement. She was seen as a one-novel author, if that. In recent decades, however, the republication of almost all her writings has stimulated a new recognition of its value. Her voracious reading habits and intensive study, revealed in her journals and letters and reflected in her works, is now better appreciated. Shelley's recognition of herself as an author has also been recognized; after Percy's death, she wrote about her authorial ambitions: "I think that I can maintain myself, and there is something inspiriting in the idea". Scholars now consider Mary Shelley to be a major Romantic figure, significant for her literary achievement and her political voice as a woman and a liberal.
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January 30, 2025
No me gustó.
Son cuentos y quizá no me adapté al cambio de novela-cuento. Luego fui con una idea previa de encontrarme algo que me aterre. Lejos estuvo de eso.
Encontré locura, alguna frase interesante y no mucho más de cuentos quizá no tan conocidos de autoras conocidas.
Es de las primeras veces que voy al encuentro de la lectura con una idea previa o esperando algo. La caída de la fantasía o la idealización sobre algo suele ser abrupta. Dolorosa. Acá no dolió, o si, pero si puedo decir que no gustó y el contraste con lo que esperaba fue grande.
Intentaré no caer más en la trampa de anticipar con palabras propias las palabras de otros autores.
Son cuentos y quizá no me adapté al cambio de novela-cuento. Luego fui con una idea previa de encontrarme algo que me aterre. Lejos estuvo de eso.
Encontré locura, alguna frase interesante y no mucho más de cuentos quizá no tan conocidos de autoras conocidas.
Es de las primeras veces que voy al encuentro de la lectura con una idea previa o esperando algo. La caída de la fantasía o la idealización sobre algo suele ser abrupta. Dolorosa. Acá no dolió, o si, pero si puedo decir que no gustó y el contraste con lo que esperaba fue grande.
Intentaré no caer más en la trampa de anticipar con palabras propias las palabras de otros autores.
July 1, 2024
Últimamente tengo un radar para esta clase de antologías maravillosas y necesarias, son mi obsesión.
Esta antología incluye 7 autoras de lo gótico y el terror, varias conocidas como Mary W. Shelley, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, y otras no tan nombradas como Madeleine Yale Wynne o Emma Frances Dawson. Me pareció una excelente elección haber puesto "Sobre fantasmas" de Mary W. Shelley creo que no lo he visto en otra antología por el momento.
Los que ya conocía son: "No tomar a la hora de dormir" de Rosa Mulholand; "El empapelado amarillo" de Charlotte Perkins Gilman; y "Una casa itinerante" de Emma Frances Dawson. Los otros, ya había leído a las autoras pero no estos relatos: "El cuarto pequeño" de Madeleine Yale Wayne; "El testigo" de Violet Hunt y "La muñeca" de Vernon Lee.
Creo que es un buen libro para adentrarse al género gótico de la mano de escritoras ❤️
July 8, 2024
maravilloso
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