Literary Society of 1842

The Literary Society of 1842 (Spanish: Sociedad Literaria de 1842) was a group of prominent Chileans from the social, political, and literary fields. Its goals were promoting originality among the nation's writers, strengthening the social quality of literature, and rejecting foreign literary models.^[1] The group held 86 meetings from 5 March 1842 to 1 August 1843.^[2]

Members

It had over 40 members, including the following:^[2]

References

^ Araneda Bravo, Fidel (1973). "Jose Victorino Lastarria y la Academia de Bellas Letras". Boletin de la Academia Chilena Correspondiente de la Real Academia Española [Bulletin of the Chilean Academy Corresponding with the Royal Spanish Academy] (in Spanish). Santiago: Instituto de Chile. pp. 117–118. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
^ ^a ^b Rábago Cordero, Ana Silvia. "El concepto de literatura en Chile durante la década de 1840: José Victorino Lastarria y la Sociedad Literaria" [The concept of literature in Chile during the 1840s: José Victorino Lastarria and the Literary Society] (PDF) (in Spanish). National Autonomous University of Mexico. pp. 29–31. Retrieved 26 September 2016.

External links

Wikibooks has a book on cultural transformations of Chile in the nineteenth century (in Spanish)
Sociedad Literaria de 1842 at Memoria Chilena (in Spanish)

[1] Araneda Bravo, Fidel (1973). "Jose Victorino Lastarria y la Academia de Bellas Letras". Boletin de la Academia Chilena Correspondiente de la Real Academia Española [Bulletin of the Chilean Academy Corresponding with the Royal Spanish Academy] (in Spanish). Santiago: Instituto de Chile. pp. 117–118. Retrieved 26 September 2016.

[concepto-2] Rábago Cordero, Ana Silvia. "El concepto de literatura en Chile durante la década de 1840: José Victorino Lastarria y la Sociedad Literaria" [The concept of literature in Chile during the 1840s: José Victorino Lastarria and the Literary Society] (PDF) (in Spanish). National Autonomous University of Mexico. pp. 29–31. Retrieved 26 September 2016.

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