If only your indifference we could merit.. Readers, the gros public and Revista Moderna

Abstract

My aim in this article is to explore the reading practices and the nature of the readers that I find in Revista Moderna (RM), in its first period (1898-1903), based on three fundamental notions: the petite revue, as a media phenomenon of the end of the century that helps to define Revista Moderna in ist format and circulation; the concept of “we”, which refers to a collectivity, vindicated and assumed by the journal, and that combines editors and readers, and, finally, literary inbreeding as a scripture/reading practice that develops in the journal. The material data and some information regarding to the first reception are taken into account to reach conclusions in this regard.