Galdos's 'Torquemada' Novels

Teresa Fuentes Peris is a lecturer in Spanish at Leeds Metropolitan University. Her previous volume Visions of Filth: Deviancy and Social Control in the Novels of Galdos was published by Liverpool University Press in 2003.

'The study represents a valuable addition to Galdos criticism, as well as critical analysis of the Spanish realist novel of the last half of the nineteenth century. It provides a much needed analysis of key discourses of the day and the way in which Galdos responded to them. The book itself is well organized and edited, features which have not always been given their due importance in recent studies in literary criticism. Such attention to detail is much appreciated.' Mary L. Coffey, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 86 (2009)