Love, politics and the making of the modern European subject: Spanish Romanticism and the Arab world -- Liberal individualism and the fear of the feminine in Spanish Romantic drama -- Being there: the documentary impulse from Ayguals de Izco to Galdós -- Things in Galdós / Galdós things: use value and exchange value -- Time-space compression and memory in Galdós's Fortunata y Jacinta -- The obstinate negativity of Ana Ozores -- Modernity as representation: the self-reflexivity of the Spanish realist novel -- Horror, spectacle, and nation formation: historical painting in late nineteenth-century Spain -- Cinematic city: the Spanish avant-garde, modernity and mass culture -- Women, Asian hordes and the threat to the self in Giménez Caballero's Genio de España -- Political readings of Don Juan and romantic love in Spain from the 1920s to the 1940s -- The politics of the everyday and the eternity of ruins: two women photographers in republican Spain (Margaret Michaelis 1933-37, Kati Horna, 1937-38) -- Resemanticizing feminine surrender: cross-gender identifications in the writings of Spanish female fascist activists -- Romancing the early Franco regime: the novelas románticas of Concha Linares-Becerra and Luisa-María Linares -- Gender and history: Spanish cinema in the early Franco period -- Three nationalist film versions of the Civil War: España heroica (Reig, 1937), Sin novedad en el Alcázar (Genina, 1940), ¡El santuario no se inde! (Ruiz-Castillo, 1949) -- Musical battles: populism and hegemony in the early Francoist Folkloric Film Festival -- Love and colonial ambivalence in Spanish Africanist cinema of the early Franco dictatorship -- Fetishism and the problem of sexual difference in Buñuel's Tristana (1970) -- The ghosts of the past and the seductions of psychoanalysis: El desencanto (Jaime Chávarri, 1976) -- Silence, trauma, and abjection: La madre muerta (Juanma Bajo Ulloa, 1993) -- History and hauntology; or, What does one do with the ghosts of the past? reflections on Spanish film and fiction of the post-Franco period -- Testimonies of repression: methodological and political issues -- The language of silence: historical memory, generational transmission and witnessing in contemporary Spain.