Re-reading Pío Baroja and English Literature

The Author: Katharine Murphy lectures in Spanish at the University of Exeter. She completed her doctoral thesis on the subject of ‘Pío Baroja and English Literature: A Comparative Approach to the Novels’ in 1998. She was employed as a tutor and post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Exeter before being appointed a lecturer in 2001. Her research interests include Comparative Literature, particularly early twentieth-century Spanish and English literature, Pío Baroja and the ‘Generation of 1898’, European Modernism, and the engagements with painting and music in the Modernist novel.

Contents: Capturing Consciousness: Defining the Artist in Camino de perfección and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Subjective Vision in El árbol de la ciencia and Jude the Obscure - European Perspectives: The Processed Landscape: Italy as Image in El laberinto de las sirenas and Where Angels Fear to Tread; Intertexts in the City: London in La ciudad de la niebla and Six English Novels - Genre and Representation: Narrative Obliqueness and the Expressive Centre: Las inquietudes de Shanti Andía and Heart of Darkness; Transgressions in Genre: Re-reading Tragedy in El Mayorazgo de Labraz and The Mayor of Casterbridge; Authorship and the Textual Mirrors of El mundo es ansí and Under Western Eyes.

«This perceptive, well-written book is a welcome and valuable addition to the ongoing scholarship that is reshaping the way in which we read, study, and think about Pío Baroja and his Spanish peers in relation to contemporary European aesthetics.» (Marsha S. Collins, Bulletin of Spanish Studies)