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Inviting o mal d'ollo: Lyrical Hospitality and the Event of the Hospital in Rosalía de Castro's El primer loco (1881).

Rosalía de Castro's final novel, El primer loco , appeared alongside public debates regarding Galicia's first psychiatric hospital. It relates the titular character's failed romantic adventures and reveals the growing severity of his mental illness preceding his institutionalization. The mentally il...

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Published in:Hispanic Review Vol. 94; no. 3; pp. 441 - 463
Main Author: Campbell, David
Format: Literary Criticism
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press Summer2026
Subjects:
El primer loco (Book)
De Castro, Rosalía
Psychiatric aides
Hospitality
Entertaining
Narrators
19th century (Literary period)
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