%0 Journal Article 
%A Perojo Arronte, M. Eugenia
%T The Gothic and the Debate on Science in Spain: Echoes of Frankenstein in «Un crimen científico», Pascual López and El árbol de la ciencia

%D 2022
%@ 2173-0687
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10498/27795
%X This article studies Gothic motifs and tropes in José Fernández Bremón’s «Un crimen científico», Emilia Pardo Bazán’s Pascual López: autobiografía de un estudiante de medicina and Pío Baroja’s El árbol de la cienciawithin the tradition of Mary Shelley’s pioneering novel Frankenstein. They are instrumental for conveying the vexed question of the modernisation of Spain through scientific progress, with approaches that range from the nuanced optimism of Fernández Bremón to the downright pessimism of Baroja. This trend is part of the wider movement for a moral, political, and cultural regeneration that characterised  Spanish  intellectual  activity  at  the  time.  The  tensions  between  past  and  present  appear  in  the  three  narratives  in  a  line  of  continuity  and  readjustment  of  high  aesthetic and intellectual relevance.

%K «Un crimen científico»
%K El árbol de la ciencia
%K Pío Baroja
%K debate on science
%K regeneration of Spain
%K Frankenstein
%K «Un crimen científico»
%K Pascual López
%K El árbol de la ciencia
%K José  Fernández  Bremón
%K Emilia  Pardo  Bazán
%K debate  sobre  la  ciencia
%K regeneración de España
%~ Universidad de Cádiz