Visions of Filth: Deviancy and Social Control in the Novels of Galdós

by Teresa Fuentes Peris

Book Overview

This book explores how notions of deviancy and social control are dramatized in the novels of the late nineteenth-century Spanish realist author Benito P rez Gald s. Gald s's treatment of prostitutes, alcoholics, beggars and vagrants is studied within the context of the socio-cultural and medical debates circulating during the period. Drawing on Foucault's very specific conceptualisation of the idea of control through discourses, the book analyses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 085323728X
• ISBN13: 9780853237280
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"