@inbook{10.7722/j.ctt9qdn4d.10, ISBN = {9781855661257}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt9qdn4d.10}, abstract = {It is significant that from early on in his writing career, Galdós was very consciously exploring evolutionary theory for literary purposes. This certainly does not preclude that at other times evolutionary theory finds its way into Galdós’s creativity, subconsciously or indirectly; certainly at times attempting to gauge the source of an idea may be as impossible (and unnecessary) for the reader as indeed it would have been for the author. In Galdós’s quest to create a Spanish novel worthy of comparison with the very best of the nineteenth-century European novel elsewhere, he made a point of working from within the}, bookauthor = {T. E. BELL}, booktitle = {Galdós and Darwin}, edition = {NED - New edition}, pages = {178--180}, publisher = {Boydell and Brewer}, title = {CONCLUSION}, year = {2006} }