Title: 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)