Literary criticism in the Colombian press of the second half of the XIX century: Democracy (1849-1850) Iris Ladies' Journal (1866) La crítica literaria en la prensa Colombiana de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX: La democracia (1849-1850) Iris Periódico de Señoras (1866)

Abstract

The press becomes an essential element of public life and politics, and literature is nourished by the polemics of newspapers, and it is through the press that the works of national and international writers (especially French) begin to circulate. the urban society and in which the first national works that began to trace a new literary and national drama are published. Therefore the press is a document of important historical value, insofar as it allows us to investigate the subjectivity of a given period and social actors, "it constitutes a primary source that not only consigns information but interprets it, values ​​it, it indicates, exalts or vitupera, in short, takes sides against the events that occurred (...) and As a biased and subjective document, the press reflects the imaginaries of an era, the common senses and ways through which argues or against argues about the most varied issues of national life ... "(Uribe, Álvarez, 2002. p.xii, xiii.)