ABSTRACT

Benito Perez Galdos has been described as 'the greatest Spanish novelist since Cervantes.' His work constitutes a major contribution to the nineteenth-century novel, rivalling that of Dickens of Balzac and making him an essential candidate for any course on the fiction of the period.

Jo Labanyi's study is supported by a wide-rangting introduction, a section of contemporary comment, headnotes to each piece and helpful appendix material.

chapter |20 pages

Introduction

chapter |6 pages

Chronology

part |193 pages

Critical Readings

chapter |17 pages

Galdós and the Nineteenth-Century Novel

The Need for an Interdisciplinary Approach *

chapter |19 pages

Silences and Changes of Direction

On the Historical Determination of Galdós's Fiction *

chapter |13 pages

Galdós's Gloria

A Re-vision *