This essay analyzes the indiano character in Tormento and La loca de la casa by Benito Pérez Galdós. Utilizing in part the concepts of the stereotype, hybridity, and mimicry as theorized by Homi Bhabha, I argue that the indiano...
Lo prohibido (1884) has been labeled by some critics one of Benito Pérez Galdós's weakest novels. The late Stephen Gilman memorably wrote that the narrator, Jose María Bueno de Guzmán, is a trivial Naturalistic rake who has...
For more information on the published version, visit ABC-CLIO's Website., Copeland, Eva María. Novel in Spain: 1700-1900. In World Literature in Spanish: An Encyclopedia, edited by Maureen Ihrie and Salvador A. Oropesa, Vol....
The literary movement known as realism flourished in 19th-century European letters; in Spain, it became the dominant mode of fiction during the last third of that century. Its main practitioners included the literary giants...
Copeland, Eva María. Romanticism in Spain. In World Literature in Spanish: An Encyclopedia, edited by Maureen Ihrie and Salvador A. Oropesa, 860-862. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011., For more information on the published...
For more information on the published version, visit ABC-CLIO's Website., Copeland, Eva Maria. Women Writers in Spain: 1700-1900. In World Literature in Spanish: An Encyclopedia, edited by Maureen Ihrie and Salvador A....
This essay argues that the representation of Maximiiano Rubin in Benito Pérez Galdós' 1886-87 novel Fortunata y Jacinta is largely based on typologies of male gender and sexual deviance described in medical texts and popular...