Galdos : the early historical novels

Includes indexBibliography: page 167-177With the advances of Galdos scholarship over the last twenty years, the episodios are increasingly treated as works of fiction rather than as means of transmitting elementary historical facts to the ignorant; furthermore, characters' protestations are no longer always taken at face value. The present volume complements the previous study, Galdos: The Mature Thought, in which the twenty-six episodios written between 1898 and 1912 are examined in their ideological context.The historical setting and Galdós's ideology, 1868-1875 -- The first series of Episodios Nacionales, 1873-1875 -- The second series of Episodios Nacionales, 1875-1879 -- The Episodios 1873-1879: Ideology and novelistic practiceDigitized at the University of Missouri--Columbia MU Libraries Digitization Lab in 2012. Digitized at 600 dpi with Zeutschel, OS 15000 scanner. Access copy, available in MOspace, is 400 dpi, grayscale