Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title/Conference
Decimonónica
Volume
11
Issue
2
Publisher
Decimonónica
Publication Date
2014
First Page
19
Last Page
33
Abstract
Galdós’s political and ideological evolution has been studied by Estébanez Calderón and Antonio Regalado, but no study has yet focused on his attitudes toward the most radical labor movement of his time, anarchism.1 We shall focus first on Galdós’s early journal articles in La Ilustración de Madrid and La Revista de España, followed by an examination of his more extensive concerns during the 1880s and 1890s in his Cartas to the Buenos Aires newspaper La Prensa. Next, we shall consider the dispersed 1907-1913 writings collected by Víctor Fuentes in his Galdós demócrata y republicano. Finally, we shall show how Galdós utilized his interest in anarchism for a variety of purposes in the novels La desheredada, Fortunata y Jacinta, Lo prohibido, Torquemada en la cruz, El caballero encantado, and the following Episodios: La primera república, De Cartago a Sagunto, and Cánovas.
Recommended Citation
Chamberlin, Vernon, "Galdós and International Anarchism: His Journalistic Opinions and His Creative Fiction" (2014). Decimonónica. Paper 164.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/decimononica/164