Keywords
printing press
book advertising
Mexico
19th century
How to Cite
Citas en Dimensions Service
Abstract
A study of a rare print featuring a list of fake titles presented as works by author José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, published in 1822 as an editorial prospectus. For this study, the catalogue of Fernández de Lizardi’s titles was compared with real works published in Mexico and Spain at the beginning of the 19th century. The comparison reveals that the invention of titles was a deliberate attempt to imitate existing political and religious works, and that it appealed to the horizon of expectations of the audience. To sum up, the fake titles pinpoint a liberal political stance and constituted a critique of the texts written by the Mexican Thinker’s adversaries, especially in the context of the press censorship establishment and his own excommunication in 1822.
Authors who publish in Bibliographica automatically accept the following terms:
a. Authors will keep their authorship rights and will guarantee the journal the first time publication rights of their submitted work, which will be liable to a Creative Commons license that will allow third parties to share their work as long as they give appropriate credit to the author and the first publication is attributed to Bibliographica, it is not used for commercial purposes and modified material is not distributed in case of remix, transformation or recreation.
b. Authors can adopt other non-exclusive distribution license agreements of the published version of the work (for example: deposit it in an institutional telematic archive or publish it in a monographic volume) as long as the first publication is attributed to Bibliographica.
c. Authors are encouraged to self-archive their work (for example: in institutional telematic archives or their website), for this can promote interesting exchanges and increase the citation impact of the published work. (See The effect of open access).