Resumen

MADRIGAL HERNANDEZ, Erika. The Ateneo Mexicano (1840-1850): an intergenerational cultural constellation. Connotas. Rev. crit. teór. lit. [online]. 2022, n.24, pp.158-200.  Epub 30-Mayo-2022. ISSN 2448-6019.  https://doi.org/10.36798/critlit.v0i24.401.

The aim of this research is to examine the literary association El Ateneo Mexicano (1840-1850), which congregated the intellectual and political class that dominated the public space in Mexico. The purpose is to analyse its origins and the goals that brought an intergenerational, multidisciplinary, and ideologically heterogeneous group together, as well as its contribution in the intellectual and written culture fields. In this study, I propose the Ateneo Mexicano as cultural constellation gathering two generations, which I identify as the consecrated and the young. Likewise, it is suggested that the conjunction of an intergenerational and multidisciplinary group, with the most learned personalities in their subjects, fostered a cultural upsurge in the organization, production, and dissemination of knowledge, which also led to a new order in public opinion through the instruction of “new” citizens of the Independent Mexico.

Palabras llave : written culture in the 19th century; scientific-literary associations; civic education; building citizenship; Mexican intellectuals.

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