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Author Ridao Carlini, Inma, author.

Title Rich and poor in ninteenth-century Spain : a critique of liberal society in the later novels of Benito Pérez Galdós / Inma Ridao Carlini
Published Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : Tamesis, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (224 pages)
Series Colección Támesis. Serie A.: Monografías ; 379
Colección Támesis. Serie A, Monografías ; 379.
Summary Winner of the 2017 Peter Bly Award of the Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas Rich and Poor follows Galdós's narrative of the ascent of the bourgeoisie in the speculative climate which resulted from the economic policies of the liberal State. The book also considers the way he portrays the consequences of these policies on the people left behind by the development of capitalism in Spain. Ridao Carlini brings recent scholarship on nineteenth-century Spanish history together with a wealth of contemporary material--journalism, essays, pamphlets and costumbrista sketches of manner. In this way Galdós's novels are shown to participate in the varied currents of critical thought - both conservative and socially radical--which questioned the theoretical basis of the Spanish liberal system from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. To this day no other critical work on Galdós has analysed the financial and economic aspects of Galdós's mature novels in the depth they deserve. Ridao Carlini shows that these aspects are central, both to the novels' narrative and to Galdós's understanding of Spanish society as the nineteenth century drew to a close. She also reveals Galdós's perception--one which he shares with other contemporary authors--that he was living through a time of unforeseeable social transformation. Galdós's work appears particularly relevant to us today, since we, like him, live in a time marked by a perception of social and economic uncertainty. Inma Ridao Carlini is a Teaching Fellow in Hispanic Studies, University of Leicester
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English with citations in Spanish
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 15, 2018)
Subject Pérez Galdós, Benito, 1843-1920 -- Criticism and interpretation
Pérez Galdós, Benito, 1843-1920 -- Political and social views
SUBJECT Pérez Galdós, Benito, 1843-1920. fast (OCoLC)fst00036210
Subject Poor in literature.
Middle class in literature.
Social classes in literature.
Liberalism in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese.
Liberalism in literature.
Literature.
Middle class in literature.
Political and social views.
Poor in literature.
Social classes in literature.
SUBJECT Spain -- In literature
Subject Spain.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781787442948
1787442942
Other Titles Critique of liberal society in the later novels of Benito Pérez Galdós