Lou Charnon-Deutsch is the author of Narratives of Desire: Nineteenth-Century Spanish Fiction by Women (Pennsylvania State UP). Jo Labanyi is the author of Galdos (Longman, 1994) and of The Politics of the Family in the Spanish Realist Novel (Clarendon Press, forthcoming 1996). She is the co-editor of OUP's forthcoming Introduction to Spanish Cultural Studies.

this is a volume that truly delivers on its promise ... In their informative and thoroughly enjoyable introduction the editors - both well respected Hispanists in their own right - outline their critical stance ... the studies included are consistently engaging, well-argued and written, and they do, in fact, represent some of the challenging new directions into which Peninsular Hispanism is venturing.

Lou Charnon-Deutsch is the author of Narratives of Desire: Nineteenth-Century Spanish Fiction by Women (Pennsylvania State UP). Jo Labanyi is the author of Galdos (Longman, 1994) and of The Politics of the Family in the Spanish Realist Novel (Clarendon Press, forthcoming 1996). She is the co-editor of OUP's forthcoming Introduction to Spanish Cultural Studies.

this is a volume that truly delivers on its promise ... In their informative and thoroughly enjoyable introduction the editors - both well respected Hispanists in their own right - outline their critical stance ... the studies included are consistently engaging, well-argued and written, and they do, in fact, represent some of the challenging new directions into which Peninsular Hispanism is venturing.

Lou Charnon-Deutsch is the author of Narratives of Desire: Nineteenth-Century Spanish Fiction by Women (Pennsylvania State UP). Jo Labanyi is the author of Galdos (Longman, 1994) and of The Politics of the Family in the Spanish Realist Novel (Clarendon Press, forthcoming 1996). She is the co-editor of OUP's forthcoming Introduction to Spanish Cultural Studies.

this is a volume that truly delivers on its promise ... In their informative and thoroughly enjoyable introduction the editors - both well respected Hispanists in their own right - outline their critical stance ... the studies included are consistently engaging, well-argued and written, and they do, in fact, represent some of the challenging new directions into which Peninsular Hispanism is venturing.