2.3 Dawn and development of narrative in Cuba between 1790 and 1868

2.3.1 Narrative and costumbrismo in Gaspar Betancourt Cisneros (1803 – 1866)

2.3.2 Ramón de Palma (1812 – 1860), “An Easter in San Marcos”

2.2.2 The legacy of the political and philosophical thought of Francisco de Arango y Parreño (1765 – 1837)

2.2.3 The political-philosophical, journalistic and essayistic ideology and work of Félix Varela (1787 – 1853)

2.2.4 The political and social thought of José Antonio Saco (1797 – 1879), his essay work

2.2.6 Influence of the personality and work of Domingo del Monte (1804 – 1853) on the literary life of the country

2.2.7 The historiographical and scientific work of Antonio Bachiller y Morales (1812 – 1889)

2.2.1 The political and philosophical reformism of José Agustín Caballero (1762 – 1835), literary manifestations

2.2.5 José de la Luz y Caballero (1800 – 1862), his philosophical and literary conceptions

2.1.15 The Island’s “poetic funds”, versifiers, minor and occasional poets from 1790 onwards

2.2 The development of scientific, philosophical and political thought in the period 1790 – 1868, its expression in literature