Spain's Eighteenth-Century Periodical Press

Part I Valladares and the Semanario Erudito The Life and Works of Antonio Valladares de Sotomayor Early Years, Early Works Writing for the Theatre A Temporary Stay in Osuna The Economics of Writing and the Move to Editing Hard Times in the 1790s The Peninsular War and a Return to the Theatre 1818: An Investigation by the Inquisition and an Appeal to the King Final Years and Final Projects The Semanario Erudito The Early History of the Semanario Erudito The Prospecto Valladares and Antonio de Sancha: Publishers with a Common Purpose The Publication and Distribution of the Semanario Erudito The Decree of 1791 and After 1816: The Nuevo Semanario Erudito The Law, the Censors, the Consejo de Castilla and the Semanario Erudito Laws Regulating the Periodical Press in the Eighteenth Century The Censors The Censors’ Recommendations and the Consejo’s Decisions April 1788: A Contretemps with the Authorities Conclusions: The Role of the Censors, a Confluence of Interests Part II Recovering the History of Spain Introduction: Examining Valladares’s Archive Assembling the Archive What Did the Archive Contain? Recovering the History of the Seventeenth Century Introduction Eye-Witness Reporting: Quevedo, Almansa y Mendoza, Pellicer de Tovar The Spanish Monarchy: Palafox’s ‘Juicio interior’ and the Anonymous Memorias históricas de la monarquía de España Royal Correspondence: Letters of the Conde Duque de Olivares, Queen Mariana, Don Juan de Austria and the Duque de Alba Writings of the Arbitristas and the Proyectistas The Arbitristas: Diagnosing and Curing Spain’s Ills The Eighteenth-Century Heirs of the Arbitrista Tradition: The Proyectistas Eighteenth-Century Writers: Martín Sarmiento, Andrés Burriel, Gregorio Mayans y Siscar Writings by Padre Martín Sarmiento Letters of Andrés Burriel Gregorio Mayans y Siscar: Correspondence and Other Writings Conclusion and Reflections