Literature and Society: Madame de Stael and the Argentine Romantics

Abstract

The study of Latin-American literature in its romantic age must include recognition of a fundamental debt to European letters of the same period. The new Southern republics that came into existence between 1810 and 1824 were inheritors of a wide-reaching revolutionary spirit that rose in North America in 1776, consumed France in 1789 and engulfed Spain in 1808. The beginnings of their political life took root in an intellectual climate that exalted freedom, liberalism and progress, social characteristics held dear at one time or another by European romantics. And it was that intellectual climate itself that dictated an activist tone for Latin American romanticism in the

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