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?