Spain's Eighteenth-Century Periodical Press: Antonio Valladares de Sotomayor and the Semanario Erudito [Hardcover]

The first study of theSemanario Erudito, an important late eighteenth-century Spanish periodical.

This book tells the story of one of the most important and long-lived of the erudite periodicals published in Spain in the eighteenth century, theSemanario Eruditoand its editor, Antonio Valladares de Sotomayor (1737–1820). Founded in 1887, theSemanarioceased publication when private periodicals were prohibited in February 1791.

Through theSemanario EruditoValladares sought to teach his readers Spanish history. Each week he published historical documents he believed would be instructive; most had never before been published.Spain's Eighteenth-Century Periodical Pressexamines not only Valladares’s life and works and the history of theSemanario, including its printers, sellers, and readers, but it also discusses the history of printing laws and censorship and the documents Valladares published on topics such as the monarchy, economic reform, and Spain’s place on the world stage. Madeline Sutherland-Meieris associate professor emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin.