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Author Fuentes Peris, Teresa.

Title Visions of filth : deviancy and social control in the novels of Galdós / Teresa Fuentes Peris.

Publication Info. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2003.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 216 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-212) and index.
Summary This book explores how notions of deviancy and social control are dramatized in the novels of the late nineteenth-century Spanish realist author Benito Pérez Galdós. Galdós?s treatment of prostitutes, alcoholics, beggars and vagrants is studied within the context of the socio-cultural and medical debates circulating during the period. Drawing on Foucault?s very specific conceptualisation of the idea of control through discourses, the book analyses how Galdós?s novels interacted with contemporary debates on poverty and deviancy? notably, discourses on hygiene, domesticity and philanthropy. It.
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Subject Pérez Galdós, Benito, 1843-1920 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Pérez Galdós, Benito, 1843-1920.
Criticism and interpretation.
Pérez Galdos, Benito, 1843-1920 -- Crítica e interpretación.
Deviant behavior in literature.
Deviant behavior in literature.
Social control in literature.
Social control in literature.
Prostitutes in literature.
Prostitutes in literature.
Poverty in literature.
Poverty in literature.
Alcoholism in literature.
Alcoholism in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Fuentes Peris, Teresa. Visions of filth. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2003 0853237182 9780853237181 (DLC) 2004298848 (OCoLC)52920582
ISBN 9781846314384 (electronic book)
1846314380 (electronic book)
0853237182 (cased)
085323728X (paper)
9780853237181
9780853237280 (paper)