Galdos's 'Torquemada' Novels : Waste and Profit in Late Nineteenth-century Spain
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Iberian and Latin American Studies
ISBN-10
0708320597
ISBN-13
9780708320594
Publisher
University of Wales Press
Imprint
University of Wales Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 6th, 2007
Print length
144 Pages
Weight
345 grams
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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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.
Benito Pérez Galdós 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.
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