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Title: The Spanish Realist Novel Revisited
Review: Jo Labanyi, one of the many excellent English scholars who work in Hispanic studies (a notable other being Melveena McKendrick), writes the book that needed to be written reintroducing the Spanish novel of the nineteenth century to academic readers. Her piece on Juan Valera's PEPITA JIMENEZ may be the best article written on that topic. She of course addresses Clarín, Galdós, Pardo Bazán, and the literary milieu.With a tremendously helpful general introduction and a bibliography that just won't quit, this is a must-have for "decimononistas."
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