Lecturas de historias de la lectura

Abstract

Towards the end of the 80s, two renowned historians of book and publishing culture, Roger Chartier and Robert Darnton, postulated that book and publishing studies should drift into a history of reading. Since the mid-90s, the history of reading has found its sources, consolidated its methods and specified its object. This article offers a series of critical reviews about the main contributions to the discipline, a state of the art extending from general histories to case studies, such as the Spanish and the Argentine cases.