A paisagem na produção letrada romântica: artifício e natureza

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how the topos “nature scenes” in prose fiction, of poetry and in the literary historiography discourse of the Brazilian´s romatic literate production, consists, on the one hand, in developments of landscape painting tradition, notably linked to the historical genre of the New World reports and, on the other hand, in modern appropriations and elaborations of the tropical landscape, stemmed from Alexander von Humboldt and Ferdinand Denis. Driven by this hypothesis, this article examines the expressive use from the “ scenes of origin “ and from the “poetics of history” when, in that production of Gonçalves de Magalhães, Gonçalves Dias and José de Alencar, the tropical nature and the Indian figured the sense of the American authenticity. To do so, this paper demonstrates how the poetic reinvention of nature by the romantics articulated the historical problem of origin to the theatrical representation of landscape, bringing together artifice and nature to the art of national genius.