Keywords
preventive censorship
literary criticism
edition
Spain
Colonial literature
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Abstract
Of the various paratexts that were part of the printed book from the 17th through the 18th centuries, the preventive censorship best reflects the setbacks suffered by American authors that published in Spain. When the preventive censorship became a paratext, it evolved to become a critical, theoretical and apologetic text of the central work. This paper explores how the exercise of literary criticism arises in the space dedicated to censorship and ideological control; a space that was subject to civil and ecclesiastical institutions and which, at the end of the 18th Century, also responded to literary and stylistic criteria.
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