Abstract
Apart from Antonio Regalado Garcia's rather partial treatment of Galdos’ historical fiction (Benito Perez Galdos y la novela historica espanola: 1868–1912 [Madrid: Insula, 1966]), Geoffrey Ribbans' book on History and Fiction in Galdos’s Narratives is the first major study for several years to consider the Episodios nacionales and the contemporary novels together, from the standpoint of a carefully-articulated set of theoretical considerations on the relationship between history and fiction. The introductory chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the development of various traditions of historiography, and of different critical positions on the relation of historical narrative to literature. Professor Ribbans' own standpoint is an eclectic one. On the one hand, he eschews those modern(ist) traditions of literary criticism (deriving from Saussure and Levi-Strauss, and represented by Barthes, Derrida and Foucault, and in Galdos studies principally by Diane Urey) which reject historicist criteria (11–1...
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