Mapping the Social Body: Urbanisation, the Gaze, and the Novels of Galdós

Influenced by trends in medicine, town planning and social etiquette, Madrid’s middle class viewed urban growth with apprehension in the second half of the nineteenth century. In Mapping the Social Body, Collin McKinney examines manifestations and critiques of that reaction in the work of Benito Pérez Galdós, Spain’s greatest modern novelist. Drawing on a wide range of recent cultural theory as well as contemporary non-literary texts, this book provides modern readers with a metatextual map...