Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas
Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas
Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920) is revered as Spain's greatest nineteenth-century author. Writing in the realist tradition of Dickens, Zola and Balzac, he described life in Madrid with unequalled fidelity.
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Benito Perez Galdos is revered as Spain's greatest nineteenth-century author. This book is the first detailed study of the medicine that appears in his work. It analyses the sources available to Galdos's network, issues such as epidemic disease, madness and children's diseases, and the significance of Galdos's depictions of disease and of doctors.
