Reality and desire: the turbulent editorial history of Eguiara’s Bibliotheca mexicana de Eguiara y Eguren and Beristain’s Biblioteca Hispanoamericana septentrional

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https://doi.org/10.24197/ogigia.28.2020.165-222

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Bibliography, Colonial Mexico, Juan José de Eguiara y Eguren, Bibliotheca Mexicana, José Mariano Beristáin de Souza, Biblioteca hispanoamericana septentrional

Abstract

This article highlights the intrinsic links between the first two major bibliographical repertoires of the viceroyalty's intellectual production in New Spain and its turbulent publishing history, placing it within the framework of the history of the written culture of its environment in the mid-18th and early 19th centuries. 

Thanks to an analysis of its genesis and the processes that culminated in the publication, albeit partial, of both works, this work proposes an approach to the bibliographic poetics that underlies the writing and publication of texts dedicated to the projection of the national writing culture. 

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Author Biography

  • Laurette Godinas, Institute for Bibliographical Research-National Autonomous University of Mexico, Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas-Unversidad Nacional Autónoma de México

    Laurette Godinas has a degree in Romance Philology from the University of Liège and a PhD in Hispanic Literature from El Colegio de México. Since 2007 she has been a researcher at the Institute of Bibliographic Research and the National Library of Mexico. Passionate about textual history, Paleography and the study of medieval and colonial Latin and Spanish manuscripts, she has taught numerous courses and published books, book chapters and articles on these subjects. She is co-editor, together with Marina Garone Gravier and Isabel Galina Russell, of De la piedra al pixel (2016), De Pérgamo a la nube (2017) and Del ductus al xml, in press, very interesting journeys about the history of the book. Currently she co-directs, together with Pablo Mora, the PAPIIT project  Bibliography of Bibliographies: towards the construction of a model for the history and the digital edition of masterpieces of the Mexican Bibliography. The Bibliotheca mexicana de Eguiara and the Biblioteca hispanoamericana norte de Beristáin, a project aimed at creating a model for digital critical editions of Mexican bibliographic works. 

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2020-10-24

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No. 28 (2020): Monográfico: Historia material e inmaterial del libro

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Reality and desire: the turbulent editorial history of Eguiara’s Bibliotheca mexicana de Eguiara y Eguren and Beristain’s Biblioteca Hispanoamericana septentrional. (2020). Ogigia. Revista Electrónica De Estudios Hispánicos, 28, 165-222. https://doi.org/10.24197/ogigia.28.2020.165-222