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Presenting a cultural and interdisciplinary study of humor in Spain from the eighteenth century to the present day, this book examines how humour entered public life, how it attained a legitimacy to communicate ‘serious’ ideas in the Enlightenment and how this set the seed for the key position that humor occupies in society today. Through a range of case studies that run from Goya’s paintings, humor, and gender representations in radio programmes during the first Franco regime, developmentalist cinema of the sixties and seventies, to the transformation of female humor in social media, the book traces the core role that the comical has played in the public sphere. The contributors to this volume represent a wide range of disciplines including gender studies, humour studies and Hispanic studies and offer international perspectives on Spanish laughter.
“This volume is a fresh and significant contribution not only to the overall field of Hispanic Studies, but to numerous other disciplines such as humor studies, gender studies, journalism and studies in the Enlightenment. The editor and authors have presented an interdisciplinary mosaic that represents more than two centuries of humorous testimony.” • Leticia Villamediana González, University of Warwick
Antonio Calvo Maturana is Associate Professor of History at the University of Malaga and principal investigator of the international research team ‘Humour and Its Sense: Discourses and Images of the Laughable from the Enlightenment until Today’. His area of expertise is European Cultural History during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with a particular interest in Spain. He is the author of four books, among them: Impostores: sombras en la España de las luces (Cátedra, 2015); ‘Cuando manden los que obedecen’: la clase política e intelectual de la España preliberal, 1780-1808 (2013); ‘Aquel que manda las conciencias’: Iglesia y adoctrinamiento político en la Monarquía Hispánica preconstitucional, 1780-1808 (2012); María Luisa de Parma: reina de España, esclava del mito (2007, 2ª ed. Forthcoming).
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Introduction
Antonio Calvo Maturana
Chapter 1. When Spaniards defied gravity: humor, seriousness and identity in Eighteenth Century Spain
Antonio Calvo Maturana
Chapter 2. Disciplinary humour in the public sphere: the rhetorics of gender satire in José Clavijo y Fajardo’s El pensador
Sally-Ann Kitts
Chapter 3. “La vieja y la niña: Women’s humour in the comedies of María Rosa Gálvez”
Elizabeth Franklin Lewis
Chapter 4. When Women are on Top. Humour, Politics and Pornography in Goya's Swings
Javier Moscoso
Chapter 5. Goya´s Caprichos and Critical Humour
Manuel Álvarez Junco
Chapter 6. Satire and anti-liberal public opinion in Cadiz during the Cortes (1811-1813)
Gonzalo Butrón Prida
Chapter 7. Humour, translation, and gender in 18th and 19th century Spain and Mexico
Catherine Jaffe
Chapter 8. Humour in Larra´s political analysis on Absolutism (1828-1833)
José María Ferri Coll
Chapter 9. ‘Long Live the Joke’: Political Satire and Humour through the Valencian Newspaper El Mole (1837)
Alejandro Llinares Planells
Chapter 10. Monochatus non est pietas. Anticlerical humour and political violence, c. 1750-1840
Gregorio Alonso
Chapter 11. Laughter, Gender and the politics of celebrity in fin-de-siècle Spain: on Emilia Pardo Bazán
Isabel Burdiel
Chapter 12. El Gran Bvfón, an illustrated magazine: Humour and caricature in Spain at the beginning of the 20th century
Miguel Ángel Gamonal Torres
Chapter 13. Artistic Parody, Political criticism and Spanish Humour (ca. 1900)
Carlos Reyero
Chapter 14. The “Moor”, the “Russian”, and other invaders. Satirical representations of national otherness in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39)
Xosé M. Núñez Seixas
Chapter 15. Smile for the Homeland. Humour and gender representations in radio programs during the first Franco regime (1939-1959)
Sergio Blanco Fajardo
Chapter 16. The developmentalist cinema of the sixties and the seventies. Archetypes of gender, social change and the “paleto” and “destape” phenomena
Dolores Ramos Palomo
Chapter 17. From classic to transgressive humour: The transformation of female humour in social media
Natalia Meléndez Malavé
Conclusions