El Museo Universal (1857-69): Mirror of Transition Years
Students of Spanish literature of the first half of the 19th century still stand indebted to Georges Lc Centil for his partial analysis of and index to thirty-one literary journals published in :Madrid between 1803 and 1849. More recently additional light has been thrown on this period through the publication of complete indices for a number of reviews not covered by Le Gentil as well as for several included in his survey. Thus far, however, there has been no planned approach to duplicate the above efforts for the critical transition years, roughly 1850–70, from the decline of romanticism to the triumph of realism. The CSIC series to clate includes only two reviews that afford but partial coverage for these years: the above-cited Semanario pintoresco espanol (1836-57) and Educación pintoresca (1857-59). The latter, moreover, is of scant literary significance.