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1 online resource (xi, 216 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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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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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Pérez Galdós, Benito, 1843-1920 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Pérez Galdós, Benito, 1843-1920. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Pérez Galdos, Benito, 1843-1920 -- Crítica e interpretación. |
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Deviant behavior in literature.
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Deviant behavior in literature. |
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Social control in literature.
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Social control in literature. |
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Prostitutes in literature.
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Prostitutes in literature. |
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Poverty in literature.
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Poverty in literature. |
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Alcoholism in literature.
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Alcoholism in literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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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) |
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1846314380 (electronic book) |
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0853237182 (cased) |
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085323728X (paper) |
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9780853237181 |
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9780853237280 (paper) |
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