The Sheffield Galdós Seminars (1999)
The seminars were organised as part of the work of the Pérez Galdós Editions Project, a research project within the Humanities Research Institute of the University of Sheffield. The project gratefully acknowledges the collaboration of the Instituto Cervantes.
28 April
Professor Eamonn Rodgers, University of Strathclyde
Who read Galdós? The economics of creative writing in the 19th century
5 May
Dr James Whiston, Trinity College, Dublin
Working with Galdós's Lo prohibido manuscript
Dr Rhian Davies, University of Sheffield
The manuscript version of Torquemada en la Cruz
12 May
Professor Alex Longhurst, University of Exeter
Representations of the 'Fourth Estate' in Galdós, Blasco Ibáñez and Baroja
Dr Teresa Fuentes Peris, University of Leeds
Images of filth: The representation of the poor in 'Una visita al Cuarto Estado'
19 May
Eric Southworth, University of Oxford
Art and religion in the Pérez Galdós of the early 1890s
Dr Lisa Conde, University of Swansea
Is Tristana a feminist novel?