Ambition and the Bleak Legacy of Liberal Thought in Benito Pérez Galdós' La Fontana de Oro: Novela histórica (1871).
Re-reading Benito Pérez Galdós' La Fontana de Oro as an archive of resentments directed at Church and monarchic hegemony in nineteenth-century Spain, I analyze the defeat of the protagonist's political ambitions during the Liberal Triennium (1820-1823). This essay moves away from previous scholarshi...
| Publicado en: | Romance Notes Vol. 64; no. 1; pp. 77 - 89 |
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2024
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