Revista Contemporánea

*Revista Contemporánea*
	Cover page of Revista Contemporánea, nº1
Categories	Literary magazine; Culture magazine;
Founder	José del Perojo
First issue	15 December 1875
Final issue	June 1907
Country	Spain
Based in	Madrid
Language	Spanish

Revista Contemporánea was a literary and cultural magazine which was published in the period 1875–1907 in Madrid, Spain. The magazine was the first publication in Spain which introduced German and French thought.^[1]

History and profile

The first issue of Revista Contemporánea appeared on 15 December 1875 in Madrid.^[2] The founder was José del Perojo who also edited the magazine in the early period.^[2]^[3] He was a Cuban-born philosopher and political thinker.^[3]^[4]

Revista Contemporánea featured literary articles in addition to those about humanistic and scientific fields.^[2] One of the regular contributors of the magazine was Pedro Estasén under the editorship of Perojo.^[4] In 1879 Perojo sold the publication to José de Cárdenas, and Francisco de Asís Pacheco replaced him as the editor of the magazine.^[2] Its ideological orientation was liberal until that event, and the magazine became a conservative publication.^[1] When it held a liberal view, the magazine frequently featured articles concerning the emancipation of women.^[1] From 1901 Juan Ortega y Rubio edited the magazine.^[2] The last issue of Revista Contemporánea was published in June 1907 when the owner of the magazine, José de Cárdenas, died.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Marina Cano (2021). "Transnational Feminism and Spanish Magazines at the Turn of the Century". Modernism/Modernity. 28 (1): 50, 60. doi:10.1353/mod.2021.0016. S2CID 234912887.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Título: Revista contemporánea (Madrid)" (in Spanish). Hemeroteca Digital. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
^ ^a ^b David Corrales Morales (2017). "Latins against Anglo-Saxons: Spanish cultural magazines as a channel for transatlantic debates about race (1898–1914)". Journal of Transatlantic Studies. 15 (3): 274. doi:10.1080/14794012.2017.1337687. S2CID 149025437.
^ ^a ^b Miguel Ángel Puig-Samper; Armando García González; Francisco Pelayo (2017). "La polémica evolucionista en España durante el siglo XIX: una revisión". História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos. 24 (3): 591–592. doi:10.1590/s0104-59702017000300003. hdl:10261/199442. Content was taken from the English version of the article.