Fuertes Arboix, Mónica (2014). La sátira política en la primera mitad del siglo XIX. Alicante. Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alicante

Abstract

This text reviews a monograph that deals with satire in nineteenth-century journalism, focusing on the figure of Modesto Lafuente, who was also an important historian who published several volumes of the Historia General de España. The study analyzes the weekly of Fray Gerundio in the six chapters of the monograph. It first presents a historical and social context of Spanish politics and journalism and then goes on to explain the circumstances in which this newspaper was born. Then all the published numbers are analyzed, as well as Lafuente's style of writing, the satire used in his texts and, finally, the illustrations that sometimes accompanied them. The final bibliography is extensive and useful to delve deeper into this little-known author. In short, it is a well-done and documented monograph that accounts for the important work of Lafuente.