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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |27 pages
Contemporary Documents
part |193 pages
Critical Readings
chapter |17 pages
Galdós and the Nineteenth-Century Novel
The Need for an Interdisciplinary Approach
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chapter |19 pages
Silences and Changes of Direction
On the Historical Determination of Galdós's Fiction
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