Comparative Perspectives on the Rise of the Brazilian Novel /

Comparative Perspectives on the Rise of the Brazilian Novel presents a framework for analyzing key nineteenth-century Brazilian novels.

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Other Authors: Vasconcelos, Sandra Guardini T. (Editor), Silva, Ana Cláudia Suriani da (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : UCL Press, 2020.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : A Novel Approach to the Rise of the Brazilian Novel
  • 1. Misterios del Plata : (Dis)Figuring History to Forge a Space for a Woman's Agency
  • 2. The Historical Significance of Memórias de um sargento de milícias
  • 3. A providência, recordação dos tempos coloniais and the Novel in Brazil
  • 4. Maria Firmina dos Reis and the First Afro-Brazilian Novel
  • 5. 'A suspicious sound interrupted the gentle harmony' : Iracema by Jose de Alencar
  • 6. Displaced Experience and Magic Compromise
  • 7. Brazilian Landscape : A Study of Inocência
  • 8. Silences and Voices of Slavery : A escrava Isaura and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
  • 9. The Construction of Pseudo-Modern Individuals in Senhora by Jose de Alencar
  • 10. Maria Benedita Câmara Bormann's Lesbia : The Creation of the Woman Writer in Brazil
  • 11. O Ateneu: A Singular Masterpiece about the Nineteenth-Century Civilizational Crisis
  • 12. O aborto and the Rise of Erotic Popular Print in Late Nineteenth-Century Brazil
  • 13. Machado de Assis and the Novel
  • 14. Capitu against the Elegiac Narrator
  • 15. On Moral and Financial Bankruptcy : Adultery and Financial Speculation in A falência by Júlia Lopes de Almeida.