Abstract

PAS, Hernán. Illustrated Crimes: Feuilleton and Visual Imaginary in the Rio de la Plata Press, 1846-1880. Bibliographica [online]. 2021, vol.4, n.2, pp.15-44.  Epub Dec 09, 2024. ISSN 2594-178X.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iib.2594178xe.2021.2.121.

Since its incorporation in Buenos Aires in the mid-1840s, the serial story format (feuilleton) completely integrated to the press sector. Such integration was not passive; on the contrary, it caused several important events in the emergent and precarious printing market. On the one hand, it acknowledged and negotiated with what had not been a sufficiently considered area until then: the entertainment culture; on the other hand, the progressive “serialization” of the press achieved its full development with the propagation of printed images. Furthermore, the alliance between serial works of fiction and illustration generated a popular type of reading that became a true novelty in the Republic of Letters. This paper aims to study the history of these relations, from incorporating the genre in Buenos Aires (1846) to its most artistic form- the serial criollos feuilletons written by Eduardo Gutiérrez and published in La Patria Argentina (1879-1880).

Keywords : Feuilleton; illustration; magazine; Rio de la Plata press; La Patria Argentina.

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