ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the complex and shifting relationship between religion and an emerging medical discourse as portrayed in the fiction of the Spanish writer and journalist Jose Fernandez Bremon, particularly his short story Un crimen cientifico published in 1875. It examines the discursive dynamics that led to the later marginalization of Bremon in literary canons of nineteenth-century. The chapter offers a close reading of Un crimen cientifico, a corrosive satire on the shortcomings of human perception. This discursive landscape has become expansive during the last couple of decades, testified to the burgeoning number of studies devoted to less explored genres like science fiction or to often overlapping gothic and supernatural incursions. Un crimen cientifico is a story with a medical angle that Bremon produced for some of the main newspapers of this time. The recovery of authors like Bremon expands one's own vision of nineteenth-century Spain to go beyond the polemic of Spanish science and other cornerstones of conventional narratives.
