- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846310270
- eISBN:
- 9781846314117
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781846310270.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
Andrés Bello, one of the most influential intellectuals in the ideological formation of Spanish American independence, wrote poetry that adheres to neoclassical convention and which is characterised ...
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Andrés Bello, one of the most influential intellectuals in the ideological formation of Spanish American independence, wrote poetry that adheres to neoclassical convention and which is characterised by shifts towards a Romantic aesthetic. He was the first to write in Spanish on modern international law, including the 1832 treatise Principios del derecho de gentes. Through his works, Bello made an outstanding contribution to the formation of Chile as a nation state and to the cultural independence of Spanish America. This chapter looks at the woman-trope in his poetry, focusing on the slippage from gender as a grammatical category to gender signifying sexual difference in his Gramática. Bello's ouvre includes ‘Alocución a la poesía’ and ‘La agricultura de la zona tórrida’, published in 1823 and 1826, respectively. The chapter examines the construction of the myths and tropes of sexual difference underpinning these works, and the resulting ideological and political implications.Less
Andrés Bello, one of the most influential intellectuals in the ideological formation of Spanish American independence, wrote poetry that adheres to neoclassical convention and which is characterised by shifts towards a Romantic aesthetic. He was the first to write in Spanish on modern international law, including the 1832 treatise Principios del derecho de gentes. Through his works, Bello made an outstanding contribution to the formation of Chile as a nation state and to the cultural independence of Spanish America. This chapter looks at the woman-trope in his poetry, focusing on the slippage from gender as a grammatical category to gender signifying sexual difference in his Gramática. Bello's ouvre includes ‘Alocución a la poesía’ and ‘La agricultura de la zona tórrida’, published in 1823 and 1826, respectively. The chapter examines the construction of the myths and tropes of sexual difference underpinning these works, and the resulting ideological and political implications.
Rebecca Cole Heinowitz
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748638680
- eISBN:
- 9780748651702
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748638680.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
Robert Southey did not exaggerate when he described the England of his day as ‘South American mad’. As Spain's hold on its colonies progressively weakened during the late eighteenth and early ...
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Robert Southey did not exaggerate when he described the England of his day as ‘South American mad’. As Spain's hold on its colonies progressively weakened during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, thousands of British scientists, soldiers, entrepreneurs, and settlers rushed to take advantage of the enticing opportunities Spanish America offered. Britain's fascination with the region displayed itself in poems, plays, operas, political tracts, news reportage, travel narratives, and stock market quotations. Creole patriots such as Francisco de Miranda and Andrés Bello gathered in London to solicit aid for their revolutions while ministers debated tactics for liberating both the peoples and the untapped wealth of Spain's colonies. Through critical reconsiderations of both canonical and lesser-known Romantic texts, from Helen Maria Williams' Peru to Samuel Rogers' The Voyage of Columbus and Byron's The Age of Bronze, this book reveals the untold story of Romantic-era Britain's Spanish American obsession. Although historians have traditionally characterized Britain's relationship with Spanish America as commercial rather than colonial, the book explores the significant rhetorical overlap between formal and informal strategies of rule. In the absence of a coherent imperial policy regarding Spain's colonies, Britain struggled to justify its actions by means of the problematic assertion that British primacy was authorized by a political, cultural, ethical and even historical identification with the peoples of Spanish America. By examining the ways in which this discourse of British-Spanish American similitude was deployed and increasingly strained throughout the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the book demonstrates that British writing about Spanish America redefines the anxieties, ambivalences and contradictions that characterize Romantic Imperialism.Less
Robert Southey did not exaggerate when he described the England of his day as ‘South American mad’. As Spain's hold on its colonies progressively weakened during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, thousands of British scientists, soldiers, entrepreneurs, and settlers rushed to take advantage of the enticing opportunities Spanish America offered. Britain's fascination with the region displayed itself in poems, plays, operas, political tracts, news reportage, travel narratives, and stock market quotations. Creole patriots such as Francisco de Miranda and Andrés Bello gathered in London to solicit aid for their revolutions while ministers debated tactics for liberating both the peoples and the untapped wealth of Spain's colonies. Through critical reconsiderations of both canonical and lesser-known Romantic texts, from Helen Maria Williams' Peru to Samuel Rogers' The Voyage of Columbus and Byron's The Age of Bronze, this book reveals the untold story of Romantic-era Britain's Spanish American obsession. Although historians have traditionally characterized Britain's relationship with Spanish America as commercial rather than colonial, the book explores the significant rhetorical overlap between formal and informal strategies of rule. In the absence of a coherent imperial policy regarding Spain's colonies, Britain struggled to justify its actions by means of the problematic assertion that British primacy was authorized by a political, cultural, ethical and even historical identification with the peoples of Spanish America. By examining the ways in which this discourse of British-Spanish American similitude was deployed and increasingly strained throughout the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the book demonstrates that British writing about Spanish America redefines the anxieties, ambivalences and contradictions that characterize Romantic Imperialism.
