Visions of filth
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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.
Alcoholism in literatureCriticism and interpretationDeviant behavior in literaturePoverty in literatureProstitution in literatureSocial control in literaturePerez galdos, benito, 1843-1920Spanish fiction, history and criticismProstitutes in literature