La prensa de costumbres y la literatura de civilidad en la Buenos Aires tardocolonial

Abstract

Analyze how the late colonial customs press approached the literature of civility, to question family education. The need to inhabit both the country and the city was revealed, according to modern times. A selection of articles addressing the criticism of customs in the newspapers of the first years of the 19th century was compiled, contrasted and analyzed. The questioning by the Creole elite of traditions, private education and the generational transmission of knowledge was evident. It sought to achieve a change in customs, through the printed culture, so that Buenos Aires is not “the fierce moon of the educated provinces”, as Francisco Cabello y Mesa, of the Bourbon empire wrote.