Fontainville Abbey: la obra gótica olvidada de William Dunlap, el primer dramaturgo americano

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https://doi.org/10.5965/1414573102552025e0213In

Palabras clave:

William Dunlap, Fontainville Abbey, gótico, dramaturgia, fantasmagoría

Resumen

Fontainville Abbey (1794), de William Dunlap, inspirada en el Romance of the Forest (1791) de Ann Radcliffe, es una obra que ha quedado relegada al olvido. Dunlap está considerado un excelente historiador, además de ser el primer dramaturgo estadounidense y el primer escritor de literatura gótica del país. Olvidado por sus coetáneos, Dunlap también fue olvidado por la academia. El objetivo de este artículo es mostrar cómo la dramaturgia melodramática de Dunlap y su diálogo con los textos seminales de la literatura estadounidense sirven de receptáculo para la memoria y cómo esta memoria, en este caso la memoria de la historia del teatro melodramático (¿gótico?) estadounidense, se transforma en fantasmagoría.

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Vanessa Cianconi, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

PhD in Comparative Literature at Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), with a research fellow at University of Pittsburgh/Theater Department. Mellon School of Theater and Performance at Harvard University. Masters in Letters (Science of Literature) at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Specialization in English Language Literatures at UFF. Undergraduation at UFF, Liberal Arts. JCNE/FAPERJ.

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Publicado

2025-08-31

Cómo citar

CIANCONI, Vanessa. Fontainville Abbey: la obra gótica olvidada de William Dunlap, el primer dramaturgo americano. Urdimento, Florianópolis, v. 2, n. 55, p. 1–21, 2025. DOI: 10.5965/1414573102552025e0213In. Disponível em: https://revistas.udesc.br/index.php/urdimento/article/view/27744. Acesso em: 1 sep. 2025.