Tropicalism and Romanticism: Francisco Mourelle de la Rúa’s Journey around the Pacific Ocean (1780-1781)

The torrid or tropical Zone limited by the two tropics of cancer and Capricorn was imagined by the greatest powers of the 18 century, Spain, France, and Great Britain as a meeting area of the otherness where the tropical discourses, ambivalent, appeared written either with dose of ferocity and infer...

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Main Author: José María GARCÍA SÁNCHEZ
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Language:English
Published: Universidad de Salamanca 2011-01-01
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Online Access:http://revistas.usal.es/index.php/1576-7914/article/view/7607
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description The torrid or tropical Zone limited by the two tropics of cancer and Capricorn was imagined by the greatest powers of the 18 century, Spain, France, and Great Britain as a meeting area of the otherness where the tropical discourses, ambivalent, appeared written either with dose of ferocity and infertility, or exoticism and abundance. Francisco Mourelle de la Rua was one of the most experienced sailors that plied the international waters during the last third of the eighteenth century, one of his trips included one of the «tropical» zones par excellence, the trip embarked from San Blas in Nayarit in Mexico and his return to Manila is the object of analysis of this study.
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spellingShingle José María GARCÍA SÁNCHEZ
Tropicalism and Romanticism: Francisco Mourelle de la Rúa’s Journey around the Pacific Ocean (1780-1781)
Cuadernos Dieciochistas
tropicalismo
romanticismo
francisco mourelle de la rúa
exploración
océano pacífico
title Tropicalism and Romanticism: Francisco Mourelle de la Rúa’s Journey around the Pacific Ocean (1780-1781)
title_full Tropicalism and Romanticism: Francisco Mourelle de la Rúa’s Journey around the Pacific Ocean (1780-1781)
title_fullStr Tropicalism and Romanticism: Francisco Mourelle de la Rúa’s Journey around the Pacific Ocean (1780-1781)
title_full_unstemmed Tropicalism and Romanticism: Francisco Mourelle de la Rúa’s Journey around the Pacific Ocean (1780-1781)
title_short Tropicalism and Romanticism: Francisco Mourelle de la Rúa’s Journey around the Pacific Ocean (1780-1781)
title_sort tropicalism and romanticism francisco mourelle de la rua s journey around the pacific ocean 1780 1781
topic tropicalismo
romanticismo
francisco mourelle de la rúa
exploración
océano pacífico
url http://revistas.usal.es/index.php/1576-7914/article/view/7607
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