Entre lo barroco y lo oriental: visiones de la poesía española en relatos de viaje (1770–1808)

Abstract

From the seventeenth and throughout the eighteenth century, some French and Italian authors characterized Spanish poetry by its baroque features. In the nineteenth century, foreign Romanticism tended to represent it as an eastern literature. This article will try to contextualize these characterizations, while proposing the study of travel accounts to Spain between 1770 and 1808 as a historiographical genre where the confluence of both paradigms, the neoclassical and the Romantic, is noted with both coinciding in representing Spanish literature as diverging from the classical tradition.