GOTHIC ELEMENTS IN THREE WORKS OF EARLY SPANISH ROMANTICISM

The awakening of Gothic in literature 1764 marked a milestone the development Western literary canon. inclusion supernatural and horrific provoked end reign Enlightenment opened door for Romanticism. In Spain it took while longer new trend to flourish. However, group writers who had published during last decades eighteenth century started include gothic elements their works, creating Enlightenment-Gothic hybrids. Some these authors were Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, José Cadalso Juan Meléndez Valdés. Their El delincuente honrado, Noches lúgubres, “A Jovino, el melancólico,” respectively prove that sublime aesthetics also affected Spanish belles lettres.