La de Bringas: The naturalist context and Critical metaobservation

"In this rereading of the novel, I propose that its reception in the periodical press at the time of its publication highlights the author’s naturalist tendencies. In the articles that appear in El Imparcial, La Illustration Ibérica, and La América, to name a few, literary critics often use the term naturalista to describe the content of the novel. This essay elucidates how these critics’ metaobservations of Galdós’s observation of the society that surrounds Rosalía, in turn, shed light on multiple doctrines, theories, and philosophies relating to the social, scientific, and literary discourses of the time. It also explores how these metaobservations dialogue in precursive fashion with contemporary analyses of this novel.Keywords: Spanish Naturalism; French Naturalism; periodical press; Isabeline literature; Galdós’s segunda manera"