Cuadernos Dieciochistas (Feb 2014)
Counter-Sublime Aesthetics: Prose as a Fracture of Identity in the Travels of Leandro Fernández de Moratín
Abstract
The aim of this article is to analyze the works by Leandro Fernández de Moratín between 1792 and 1797 in order to show the modernity of his writing in the context of eighteenth-century European literature. During his travels the author describes sublime landscapes, but at the same time is ironic about his time and his country. Specifically, this paper analyzes the prose of Apuntaciones sueltas de Inglaterra and Viaje de Italia, as well as the modernity of a text such as Auto de fe de Logroño.
