A Lion of a Man: Buddhist Japonisme and Krausist Masculinity in Galdós's La familia de León Roch.
In this essay, I examine how the set of Japanese decorative items present in Benito Pérez Galdós's La familia de León Roch (1878) elucidates a reformulation of the Krausist model of masculinity embodied by the novel's hero. Focusing on Buddhist imagery in the text, I explore how allusions to the Eas...
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