Introduction: Interiors and narrative -- The novel's sense of the interior -- The novelist's sense of the interior -- Furnishing the novel -- The threshold: The ins and outs of Quincas Borba -- Movables and immovables: the legend of the Maias -- The corners of the world: inside La Regenta -- Interiors and interiority -- Inside the minds and hearts of Machado's characters -- Eça's interior decorators -- Memory and movement: Ana's and Fermín's interiors -- The discourse of interiors -- Machado's minimalism and the meaning of things -- The narrative life of Eça's furnishings -- The dramatic effect of Clarín's interior architecture -- Epilogue: from Voltaire's garden to Galdós's rooms.
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Bucknell University Press Latin American studies series
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