The Critical Press and Public Opinion: El Correo de Madrid (1786–1791) and the Espíritu de los Mejores Diarios (1787–1791)

Jesús Astigarraga

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Chapter 7 The Critical Press and Public Opinion

El Correo de Madrid (1786–1791) and the Espíritu de los Mejores Diarios (1787–1791)

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Pages:: 173–193

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004442894_009

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In July 1789, while France was being shaken by revolutionary events, the press in neighbouring Spain was showing unmistakable signs of enjoying tremendous vitality. Although it would not be long before news from Paris dealt a body blow to the Spanish Enlightenment, the press continued to cultivate the fertile exuberance that it displayed during its “golden age”. In the late 1780s its importance could be measured in both quantitative and qualitative terms: not only had newspapers and journals multiplied at Court and in the provinces but they had become a key piece in the new domain of the public sphere. During these years some of them not only supported the language and ideas that had preceded the revolutionary events in France, but they also emerged as a new form of political communication in which political economy continued to take pride of place. From a position that was reasonably far away from power, these periodicals became a crucial factor for shaping public opinion in Spain. In Enlightenment Spain the two main symbols of this new critical journalism, bursting with economic content and protagonists in the opening up of a new channel for intervening in political life with the aim of shaping “the tribunal” of public opinion, were El Correo de Madrid o de los ciegos and the Espíritu de los mejores diarios literarios. This chapter is dedicated to the study of their content.

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A Unifying Enlightenment

Institutions of Political Economy in Eighteenth-Century Spain (1700–1808)

Series: Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions, Volume: 30

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004442894

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 12 Nov 2020

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Chapter 7 The Critical Press and Public Opinion

El Correo de Madrid (1786–1791) and the Espíritu de los Mejores Diarios (1787–1791)

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