Book contents
- A History of Chilean Literature
- A History of Chilean Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Proto-Chilean, Colonial Chronicles and Letters
- Part II Nineteenth-Century Articulations of an Embryonic National Consciousness
- Chapter 6 Rosario Orrego Castañeda (1831/4–1879) and the Proto-Feminist Writing Scene
- Chapter 7 The Feuilleton Tradition
- Chapter 8 The Historical Novel
- Chapter 9 From the Public to the Private
- Chapter 10 Literature and Literary Markets
- Chapter 11 Modernization and Culture
- Part III Beyond Chileanness: Heterogeneity and Transculturation in Canonical and Peripheral Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature
- Index
- References
Chapter 7 - The Feuilleton Tradition
Popular Literature Aimed at the Urban Reader
from Part II - Nineteenth-Century Articulations of an Embryonic National Consciousness
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 September 2021
- A History of Chilean Literature
- A History of Chilean Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Proto-Chilean, Colonial Chronicles and Letters
- Part II Nineteenth-Century Articulations of an Embryonic National Consciousness
- Chapter 6 Rosario Orrego Castañeda (1831/4–1879) and the Proto-Feminist Writing Scene
- Chapter 7 The Feuilleton Tradition
- Chapter 8 The Historical Novel
- Chapter 9 From the Public to the Private
- Chapter 10 Literature and Literary Markets
- Chapter 11 Modernization and Culture
- Part III Beyond Chileanness: Heterogeneity and Transculturation in Canonical and Peripheral Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature
- Index
- References
Summary
The 1840s were a key period for Chile regarding academic, literary, journalistic, artistic, educational, and political events. From this point on, a series of events were unleashed, as in chain reaction, which marked the country during the second part of the nineteenth century: the foundation of the Universidad de Chile (University of Chile), whose first chancellor was Andrés Bello; the inauguration of the Sociedad Literaria (Literary Society) in the main hall of the aforementioned university, with a memorable speech by José Victorino Lastarria;1 the foundation of the first Escuela Normal de Preceptores (Normal Teachers’ School) in 1842; the arrival of French painter Raymond de Monvoisin in January 1843, which led to the opening of exhibitions and the first art salons in Chile; the emergence of the first cultural magazines2 in Valparaíso, thanks to the influence of Argentine exiles like Domingo Faustino Sarmiento and Juan Bautista Alberdi; and the establishment in 1846 of a new Printing Law.3
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- A History of Chilean Literature , pp. 138 - 156Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021