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- Title
Gessner's Pastoral Dramas: New Choices for the Eighteenth-Century Portuguese Cognoscenti.
- Authors
Pinto, Isabel
- Abstract
Reviewing eighteenth-century cultural production and the moral and spiritual changes that came along with it, Hernâni Cidade (1929) called our attention to the novelty of Gessner's Pastorals, which introduced public characters that were no longer dominated by the hardships of love but entered other domains of spiritual life. Subsequently, Lima (1946) offered an account of the Portuguese translations of Gessner's works, foregrounding their significant influence on Portuguese culture, an influence that extended into the late nineteenth century. Building on this foundation, the present essay establishes a chronology for the reception of Gessner's pastoral dramas in Portugal, above all in terms of how they fitted into the Portuguese cultural context of the second half of the eighteenth century. In this regard, close attention is paid to both the aesthetic and the social aspects that determined the major role Erastus and Evander and Alcimna played among Portuguese cognoscenti.
- Subjects
PORTUGAL; GESSNER, Salomon, 1730-1788; CULTURAL history; SPIRITUAL life; PASTORAL drama; PASTORAL literature; CIVILIZATION
- Publication
Portuguese Studies Review, 2016, Vol 24, Issue 1, p91
- ISSN
1057-1515
- Publication type
Article