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DIVPosits an underlying religious impetus for modernity in Mexico, claiming that the Catholic Church nursed a reform movement that ultimately effected many of the same changes as the Protestant Reformation./div
Repeatedly imprisoned for his printed attacks on the Spanish administration, Mexican journalist and publisher José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi attempted, in 1816, to make an end-run around government censors by disguising his invective as serial fiction. Lizardi's experiment in subterfuge quickly failed: Spanish officials shut down publication of the novel--the first to be published in Latin America--after the third installment, and within four years Lizardi was back in jail. The whole of The Mangy Parrot (El Periquillo Sarniento) went unpublished until after Lizardi's death--and a decade after Mexico had won its independence from Spain. Though never before published in its entirety in E...
The Rise of Constitutional Government in the Iberian Atlantic World is a collection of original essays that offer insights into how the Cádiz Constitution of 1812 shaped and influenced the political culture of Iberian America.
La innovación retrógrada, es la primera parte de una historia de la literatura mexicana del siglo XIX, cuya esencia es colocar a esa recién bautizada como "literatura nacional", en 1836 por Guillermo Prieto y sus amigos, en la llamada Academia de Letrán, en el mapa de la literatura mundial. Esta obra, empieza de adelante para atrás, subrayando la idea que de nuestras letras tenía Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo en 1893, el principal crítico de la lengua. El propósito del autor releer de otra manera el "atraso" con el cual comienza nuestra literatura y relacionarlo con las tensiones literarias que atravesaban a todo el siglo XIX.