Retrospectives, Nineteenth Century: Eighty-One Years of Articles on Nineteenth-Century Spanish Realist/Naturalist Novelists in Hispania (1917-98): An Overview and Listing

Abstract

Ever since it started publication 81 years ago, Hispania has regularly allotted space to articles on the Spanish Realist and Naturalist novelists of the second half of the nineteenth century. Not surprisingly, studies on Benito Perez Gald6s, generally acknowledged the most important novelist of the group, far out- number those on others. To a great extent, they reflect the general trends in Gald6s studies during the last quarter of a century, whether they be biographical, bibliographical, thematic, or comparative, etc. The journal has also published many reviews of books in the field. As a continuation of Hispania's interest in Spanish literature of the nineteenth century, on the eve of the twenty- first, we present this special section. The three articles on novelists build on approaches that their authors have established in previous studies, allowing the work of Alas (Gold and Richmond) to gain more attention than they have received hitherto in Hispania, at the same time reaffirming the validity of new theory-based approaches to the corpus of Gald6s's eternally relevant narratives (Gold and Urey).