Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1 When Spaniards Defied Gravity Humour, Seriousness and Identity in Eighteenth-Century Spain 25
6. Chapter 2 Disciplinary Humour in the Public Sphere The Rhetoric of Gender Satire in José Clavijo y Fajardo’s El pensador 45
7. Chapter 3 La vieja y la niña Women’s Humour in the Comedies of María Rosa Gálvez 61
8. Chapter 4 When Women Are on Top Humour, Politics and Pornography in Goya’s Swings 78
9. Chapter 5 The Terrible and the Ridiculous in Goya’s Los Caprichos 91
10. Chapter 6 Satire and Humour in Anti-Liberal Public Opinion in Cadiz during the Cortes (1811–13) 111
11. Chapter 7 Humour, Gender and Nationalism Female Quixotism and Heroine-ism in Early Nineteenth-Century Spain and Mexico 129
12. Chapter 8 Humour in the Political Analysis of Absolutism in Mariano José de Larra’s Articles (1828–33) 147
13. Chapter 9 ‘Long Live the Joke’ Political Satire and Humour through the Valencian Newspaper El Mole (1837) 167
14. Chapter 10 Monochatus Non Est Pietas Anticlerical Humour and Political Violence (c. 1750–1840) 185
15. Chapter 11 Laughter, Gender and the Politics of Celebrity in Fin-de-Siècle Spain 206
16. Chapter 12 El Gran Bvfón Illustrated Magazines, Humourism and Caricature in Spain at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century 227
17. Chapter 13 Artistic Parody, Political Criticism and Spanish Humour (c. 1900) 253
18. Chapter 14 The ‘Moor’, the ‘Russian’ and Other Invaders Some Notes on Humour and National Otherness in the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) 274
19. Chapter 15 Smiling for the Homeland Humour and Gender Representations in Radio Programmes during the First Franco Regime (1939–59) 298
20. Chapter 16 The Developmentalist Cinema of the Sixties and Seventies Archetypes of Gender and Social Change in the Paleto and Destape Phenomena 318
21. Chapter 17 Sex, Truths and Viral Tapes The Transformation of Spanish Female Humour in the Digital Age 338
22. Conclusions 356
23. Index 369