Bello and BolÃvar
Bello and BolÃvar
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GBPAs Andrés Bello predicted in 1823, the glory of Simón BolÃvar has continued to grow since the Spanish American Revolution. The Revolution is still viewed as an almost mythical quest, and the name of the Libertador has become synonymous with the region's hopes for integration. In this 1992 book, the official history of the Revolution - the heroic history of BolÃvar - is replaced by the account of Bello, who was first BolÃvar's teacher and later his critic. Through a detailed study of the manuscripts of Bello's unfinished poem América, Antonio Cussen reconstructs Bello's version of the Revolution and seeks to understand its political and cultural consequences. The author argues that Bello recorded the disintegration of the Augustan model of power and intimated the inevitable approach of liberalism with a certain longing for the classical culture of his youth.
- An important contribution to debates about cultural ideology in the time of revolution
- A unique insight into the relationship between a statesman and a poet
- A new analysis of the most influential poetic account of Latin America at the time of revolution
Product details
May 2009Paperback
9780521111393
224 pages
229 × 152 × 13 mm
0.34kg
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Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Caracas (1781–1810):
- 1. Augustan Caracas
- 2. Revolt
- Part II. London (1810–29)
- 3. Independence
- 4. The reconquest
- 5. The decided revolution
- 6. The new Augustus
- 7. The campaign of the monarchists
- 8. Poetry visits America
- 9. 'Agricultura'
- 10. BolÃvar poetics
- Part III. Santiago: (1829–65):
- 11. The liberal poets
- 12. The exile
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliographical note
- Index.
