SPAN 542 Realism in Spain
A study of the literary phenomenon of realism within the specific historical, political, and cultural context of modern Spain. After a preliminary study of the journalistic and literary prose of the Romantic period and costumbrismo, the course's emphasis will be placed on the main novelistic currents from mid-nineteenth century to the turn of the century, with special attention to the novels of Perez-Galdós, Valera, Pardo Bazán, and "Clarín."