The French-Brazilian place of Scenes of Nature in the Tropics
Abstract
This article analyzes Ferdinand Denis’ book Scenes of nature in the tropics and their influence on poetry (1824) focusing on the relationship between the book’s postulate and its main theoretical references. This analysis, aiming to understand the place and importance of that publication for the Franco-Brazilian literary history, also compares Ferdinand Denis’ call for an awakening of the French literature to the landscapes of the tropics and the reaction of the most prominent French critics of the time to the author’s ideas. Based on this analysis, we observe that, unlike in Brazil, where Scenes of Nature in the Tropics served as a tenet for the creation of a Brazilian romanticism, the book, as well as Ferdinand Denis as a public figure, were rejected by most French literati due to the limitations of its theoretical arguments.
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