BENITO PEREZ GALDOS

 

 

Bibliography

 

Aldaraca, Bridget.  El ángel del hogar:  Galdós and the Ideology of Domesticity in Spain.  Chapel Hill:  North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages, 1991.

-------------. ‘The Revolution of 1868 and the Rebellion of Rosalía de Bringas’, Anales Galdosianos 18 (1983), 49-60.

Bly, Peter A.  ‘The use of distance in Galdós’s La de Bringas’, Modern Languages Review 69 (1974).

-------------. ‘Galdós, the Madrid Royal Palace and the September 1868 Revolution’, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 5 (1980), 1-17.

-------------. ‘From Disorder to Order:  The Pattern of Arreglar References in Galdós’ Tormento and La de Bringas’, Neophilologus 62 (1978), 392-405

Charnon-Deutsch, Lou. ‘La de Bringas and the Politics of Domestic Power’, Anales Galdosianos XX (1985), 65-74.

-------------. Gender and Representation.  Women in Spanish Realist Fiction.  Philadelphia:  John Benjamins, 1990.

Delgado, Luisa Elena.  ‘ “Más estragos que las revoluciones”.  Detallando lo femenino en La de Bringas’  Revista Hispánica Moderna 48 (June 1995), 1, 31-42.

Gold, Hazel.  ‘Francisco’s Folly:  Picturing Reality in Galdos’s La de Bringas’, Hispanic Review 54 (1986), 47-66.

Labanyi, Jo. Galdós.  Harlow:  Longman’s Group UK Ltd., 1993.

-------------. ‘The Problem of Framing in La de Bringas’, Anales Galdosianos 25 (1990), 25-35.

Lowe, Jennifer.  ‘Galdós’ Presentation of Rosalía in La de Bringas’, Hispanófila 50 (1974), 49-65.

Miller, Stephen.  ‘La de Bringas as Bildungsroman:  A Feminist Reading’, Romance Quarterly 34 (1987), 189-97.

Ribbans, Geoffrey.  History and Fiction in Galdós’s Narratives.  Oxford:  Clarendon Press, 1993.

Round, Nicholas G.  ‘Rosalía de Bringas’s children’, Anales Galdosianos 6 (1971), 43-50.

Sánchez, Roberto G.  ‘The Function of Dates and Deadlines in Galdós’ La de Bringas’, Hispanic Review 46 (1978), 299-311.

Shoemaker, William.  The Novelistic Art of Galdós, vol 2.  Valencia:  Albatros Hispanófila, 1980 (Chapter 12, 223-33).

Tsuchiya, Akiko.  ‘The Construction of the Female Body in Galdós’ La de Bringas’, Romance Quarterly 40.1 (1993), 35-47.

Varey, J.E.  ‘Francisco Bringas, nuestro buen Thiers’, Anales Galdosianos 1 (1966), 63-9.

Wright, Chad.  ‘Imagery of Light and Darkness in La de Bringas’, Anales Galdosianos 13 (1978), 5-12.

                         ‘Secret Space in Pérez Galdós’ La de Bringas’, Hispanic Review 50 (1982), 75-86.

 

Essay titles

 

1.     “It would certainly be a mistake to see Galdós’s depiction of gender roles as a reflection of Spanish society of the time:  rather, it represents a projection of anxieties about relations between the sexes”.  Discuss.

2.     Discuss the significance of fashion and costume for the female characters in La de Bringas.

3.     Discuss the use of irony in La de Bringas.

4.     “Both inside and outside the fiction, all is counterfeit and a mere play of reflections”.  To what extent is this true to your reading of Galdós’s La de Bringas?

5.     “The question of narrative point of view in La de Bringas is inseparable from that of the gender of the characters depicted”.  Discuss.

6.     “No hay felicidad que no tenga su pero”.  Discuss La de Bringas in the light of this statement by the narrator.

7.     The relationship between Rosalía and the other “dynamic” characters with whom she is associated is is one of becoming.

8.     “La de Bringas reveals the alienation of women in a male-dominated society, but it cannot make the reader identify with its female protagonist.”  Discuss.

9.     ‘La de Bringas confirms the economic dependency of women in the period in which it is set even, as it reveals their capacity for independent action’.  Discuss.

10.    ‘The narrative complexities of La de Bringas (its appeal to multiple viewpoints, authorial unreliability and free indirect style) do not hinder, but rather help, the novel’s portrayal of the society in which the action takes place.’  Discuss.

11.    ‘La de Bringas is not a novel which reflects the norms and patterns of patriarchy but one which distorts and subverts them’.  Discuss.

12.    Discuss the importance of the relationship in La de Bringas between TWO of the following:

                i.     clothing and textiles;                  iii.    space;                    v.   power;

                ii.    commerce;                                             iv.     adultery.

 

 

Rosemary Clark