El nacimiento de un mercado editorial en Buenos Aires, 1880-1890

Abstract

In the 1880's, concentrated largely in Buenos Aires, the formation of a modern editorial market became evident for the first time. The details of this development were registered in the Anuario Bibliográfico de la República Argentina (1880-1888). The article, based upon data found in this extraordinary record of the contemporaneous literate culture, analyses the composition and transformations of the incipient editorial field and its production. At the same time, some general hypotheses are attempted in order to examine how symbolic and material dimensions of the literate culture reconfigure themselves during a period of critical changes derived from the sudden expansion of the reading public.