British literature and José Joaquín de Mora's critical tought

  1. Perojo Arronte, María Eugenia
Zeitschrift:
Liburna

ISSN: 1889-1128

Datum der Publikation: 2011

Titel der Ausgabe: "Más allá de los signos": Homenaje a Jaime Siles

Nummer: 4

Seiten: 279-285

Art: Artikel

Andere Publikationen in: Liburna

Zusammenfassung

José Joaquín de Mora (1763–1864), an academic, a politician and a writer, is one of those figures of nineteenth–century Spain that has been rather neglect-ed by Spanish critics and literary historiographers whereas South–American scholars have extensively highlighted his relevant role for the cultural and political progress of the former Spanish colonies. Although his literary stand has been a source of controversy as either Neoclassic or Romantic, his task as dis-seminator of British literature and culture has been indisputable. This paper explores the impact of British late eighteenth and early nineteenth–century poetics on Mora‘s thought.