Ese espejismo de dos caras: estrategias de la modernización cultural en Venezuela (siglo XIX).

This work tries to review some topics associated to the growth of the reading public and the practices and sociabilities that were at stake in the Venezuelan literacy projects of the 19th Century. Thus, it focuses on the uses that writers made of the new media and formats that they could have access to, while also examining some concrete cases. These refer to decisive moments for the circulation of printed documents (the introduction the printing press, the appropriation of modern genres such as the melodramatic novel, or the adoption of image reproduction techniques) which allowed to show the complexity of the aforementioned problems and some ways to approach them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]