El Progreso bellista en las Letras venezolanas decimonónicas (su incidencia y sus connotaciones).

Abstract

This paper will examine some Venezuelan literary works of the nineteenth century, to detect in them the critical impact of the ideology of the Bellist Progress. For that reason, we will see first the adverse position of Andres Bello before the Industria Revolution; the landscape concert of his idea of Progress. Then, we will address the attachment of the affective peasant to the terruno patrio and the free song of the beauty of the Venezuelan countryside, from the acceptance of the bellist agrarian program; the contemplation of the landscape in Bello, and of the national landscape in the bellist poets; the negative evaluation of Fermin Toro's Industrial Revolution in his novel Los martires; the country versus city as a discourse against the caudillo, the new enemy of national agrarian progress; the idea of Fermin Toro to create a new Agrarian republican state as an identity of Hispano-America; the vision of positivist science as an adjunct to national progress; agriculture as a moral locus, patron of the arts and sciences; the agro as the civilizer and redeemer of humanity in Amenodoro Urdaneta; and the Silva Criolla by Francisco Lazo Marti as a new national Progress flag.