Imagined Truths: Realism in Modern Spanish Literature and Culture

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Mary L. Coffey, Pomona College and Margot Versteeg, University of Kansas

Part One. Nineteeth-Century Spanish Realism: Root and Branch

1. Arabella’s Veil: Translating Realism in Don Quijote con faldas (1808)
Catherine Jaffe, Texas State University, San Marcos

2. Between Costumbrista Sketch and Short Story: Armando Palacio Valdés’s Aguas fuertes
Enrique Rubio Cremades, Universidad de Alicante

3. Money, Capital, Monstrosity: Metaphorical Matrices of Realism in Antonio Flores’s Ayer, hoy y mañana
Rebecca Haidt, The Ohio State University

Part Two. Modernity and the Parameters of Nineteenth-Century Spanish Realism

4. The Physician in the Narratives of Galdós and Clarín
Peter Bly, Queen’s University

5. Travelling by Streetcar through Madrid with Galdós and Pardo Bazán
Maryellen Bieder, Indiana University, Bloomington

6. Urban Hyperrealism: Galdós’s Dickensian Descriptions of Madrid
Linda M. Willem, Butler University

7. Observed versus Imaginative Communities: Creative Realism in Galdós’s Misericordi
Susan M. McKenna, University of Delaware

Part Three. Stretching the Limits of Spanish Realism

8. Colonialism, Collages, and Thick Description: Pardo Bazán and the Rhetoric of Detail
Joyce Tolliver, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

9. Embodied Minds: Critical Erotic Decisions in La Regenta
Randolph D. Pope, University of Virginia

10. María Zambrano on Women, Realism, and Freedom
Roberta Johnson, University of Kansas

Part Four. The Challenges of Genre: Spanish Realism beyond the Novel

11. Writing (Un)clear Code: The Letters and Fiction of Emilia Pardo Bazán and Benito Pérez Galdós
Cristina Patiño Eirín, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

12. "Volvía Galdós triunfante": Fortunata y Jacinta on Stage (1930)
David T. Gies, University of Virginia

13. When Reality Is Too Harsh to Bear: Role-Play in Juan Marsé’s "Historia de detectives"
Stephanie Sieburth, Duke University

Contributors
Index