Galdos''s ''Torquemada'' Novels - Waste and Profit in Late Nineteenth-Century Spain

Klappentext Benito Perez Galdos has long been considered the Spanish Tolstoy; however! unlike those of his Russian counterpart! few of his works are available in English--and fewer still are the subjects of serious literary scholarship. This book approaches one of the author's most memorable characters! Madrid moneylender Francisco Torquemada! and considers the extent to which notions of profit! efficiency! and utility inform the Torquemada series--juxtaposing nineteenth-century understandings of waste and profit with contemporary economic ideas in order to better comprehend the writer and his world. Zusammenfassung Analyses the 'waste versus profit' concept (as propounded by the British author Samuel Smiles and which found many supporters in mid-nineteenth century Spain) in the four novels of the "Torquemada" series! by Benito Perez Galdos.

Product details

• Authors: Teresa Fuentes Peris, PERIS TERESA FUENTES
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.10.2007
• EAN: 9780708320594
• ISBN: 978-0-7083-2059-4
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Iberian and Latin American Studies; Cambridge Iberian and Latin Am; Iberian and Latin American Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Profit, Spain, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Waste, Century, Late, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Novels, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, Nineteenth, 'Torquemada', Galdos's