Re-importing the novel: free and unacknowledged translations of foreign fiction in Spain (1769-1845) Ghent University
Although Spain played a major role in the development of the novel in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the genre almost entirely disappeared in the eighteenth as it was deemed an inferior form in Spanish literary theory of the period. As novels and novelists were not valued, Spanish writers frequently borrowed and freely modified material from foreign texts and sometimes passed off translations as their own work. As a result, literary ...