Book contents
- Latin American Literature in Transition 1800–1870
- Latin American Literature in Transition
- Latin American Literature in Transition 1800–1870
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Aesthetics of Disorder
- Part II Affective Communities
- Part III Intersectional Subjectivities
- Part IV Transoceanic Consciousness
- Chapter 20 Women’s Travel Writing
- Chapter 21 Hydraulic Modernity
- Chapter 22 History and the Transatlantic Imagination
- Chapter 23 Humboldt’s Aesthetic Populations
- Chapter 24 Argentine Darwinists
- Index
- References
Chapter 23 - Humboldt’s Aesthetic Populations
from Part IV - Transoceanic Consciousness
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 January 2023
Book contents
- Latin American Literature in Transition 1800–1870
- Latin American Literature in Transition
- Latin American Literature in Transition 1800–1870
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Aesthetics of Disorder
- Part II Affective Communities
- Part III Intersectional Subjectivities
- Part IV Transoceanic Consciousness
- Chapter 20 Women’s Travel Writing
- Chapter 21 Hydraulic Modernity
- Chapter 22 History and the Transatlantic Imagination
- Chapter 23 Humboldt’s Aesthetic Populations
- Chapter 24 Argentine Darwinists
- Index
- References
Summary
The Venezuelan poet Pascual Venegas Filardo once described his people’s geographical identity as “sembrados de recuerdos” [sown with memories] (12) of Humboldt. In a distant echo of Cadmus’ sowing of the Theban warriors with dragon’s teeth, the phrase suggests that the exploration Alexander von Humboldt undertook, with the French botanist Aimé Bonpland, from 1799 to 1804 still informed the continent’s collective memory and modes of subjectivity.
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- Latin American Literature in Transition 1800–1870 , pp. 359 - 374Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022
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