Visions of filth

Description:

This book explores how notions of deviancy and social control are dramatized in the novels of the late 19th-century Spanish realist author Benito Perez Galdós. His treatment of prostitutes, alcoholics, beggars and vagrants is studied within the context of the socio-cultural and medical debates circulating during the period.

subjects: Alcoholism in literature,  Criticism and interpretation,  Deviant behavior in literature,  Poverty in literature,  Prostitution in literature,  Social control in literature,  Perez galdos, benito, 1843-1920,  Spanish fiction, history and criticism,  Prostitutes in literature

People: Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920)