2.5 The rise of literary criticism (1790 – 1844)

2.5.1 The period 1844 – 1868, a transitional stage in literary criticism

2.5.1.1 Main literary critics in the period 1844 – 1868

2.5.1.2 The critical work of Enrique Piñeyro (1839 – 1911)

2.6 Political-economic thought and its literary expressions in the period prior to the revolutionary outbreak of 1868, journalism

2.6.1 The journalism and underlying ideas of Francisco de Frías Jacott, Count of Pozos Dulces (1809 – 1877)

2.6.2 The ideas, journalism and oratory of José Manuel Mestre (1832 – 1886)

2.3.6.3 The novel “Sab”, by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (1814 – 1873)

2.3.6.4 The story “Francisco”, by Anselmo Suárez Romero (1818 – 1878)

2.4 Development of the costumbrista article in the period 1790 – 1868

2.4.1 The cultivation of the article of customs by José María de Cárdenas y Rodríguez (1812 – 1882)

2.3.5.3 The sun of Jesús del Monte, work of Andrés Avelino de Orihuela (1818 – 1872)