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Informationen zum Autor J. A. Garrido Ardila is Professor of Modern Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of eight monographs and has edited multi-author volumes and Spanish classics. His work has centred on the Spanish novel of the Golden Age and the twentieth century, the Cervantean and picaresque traditions in England, and Scandinavian literature. Klappentext A History of the Spanish Novel is the only volume in English that offers comprehensive coverage of the history of the Spanish novel, from the sixteenth century to the present day, with chapters written by some of the world-leading experts in the field. Zusammenfassung A History of the Spanish Novel is the only volume in English that offers comprehensive coverage of the history of the Spanish novel, from the sixteenth century to the present day, with chapters written by some of the world-leading experts in the field. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface A Concise Introduction to the History of the Spanish Novel The Novel Before The Novel in Sixteenth-Century Spain The Chivalric Romance in the Sixteenth Century Roads Untaken: The Spanish Picaresque Novel Consequences of Don Quixote: The Bearable Lightness of Cervantes's Influence Spanish Fiction of the Seventeenth Century The Fear and Fascination of María de Zayas The Eighteenth Century Novel in Spain The Romantic Historical Novel. A Case Study of Enrique Gil y Carrasco's El señor de Membibre The Naturalist Novel in Spain: Nationalism, Morality, and Aesthetics On the Matter of Inner Realism: Clarín's La Regenta and Galdós's Fortunata y Jacinta The Works of Benito Pérez Galdós Quixotes and Chimeras in the Novels of Emilia Pardo Bazán The Spanish Modernist Novel The Novels of Pío Baroja The Avant-Garde Novel: The Search for New Concepts of Aesthetic and Social Engagement The Banquet Years of the Spanish Novel: By Invitation Only ...