Galdos

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.

General Editor's Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
Galdos and the modern reader	p. 1
The Spanish cultural context	p. 2
The press, publishing and the reading public	p. 7
Problems of political interpretation	p. 9
Women - in life and fiction	p. 11
The response to the European novel	p. 13
The critical tradition	p. 15
How to use this book	p. 18
Chronology	p. 21
Contemporary Documents	p. 27
Some Observations on the Contemporary Novel in Spain	p. 29
Present-day Society as Material for the Novel	p. 35
Preface to 1913 Edition of Misericordia	p. 40
Review of Part 1 of La desheredada	p. 43
Review of Tristana	p. 49
Critical Readings	p. 55
The Spoken Word and Fortunata and Jacinta	p. 57
Reality and Fiction in the Novels of Galdos	p. 77
The Use of Distance in Galdos's La de Bringas	p. 103
Individual, Class and Society in Fortunata and Jacinta	p. 116
Galdos and the Nineteenth-Century Novel: The Need for an Interdisciplinary Approach	p. 140
Our Friend Manso and the Game of Fictive Autonomy	p. 157
Identities and Differences in the Torquemada Novels of Galdos	p. 181
Silences and Changes of Direction: On the Historical Determination of Galdos's Fiction	p. 199
Angel Guerra, or the Monster Novel	p. 218
Galdos's Gloria: A Re-vision	p. 235
Glossary	p. 248
Notes on Authors	p. 257
Bibliography	p. 258
Index	p. 265
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