Comparative perspectives on the rise of the Brazilian novel /
edited by Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva and Sandra Guardini Vasconcelos.
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- Comparative literature and culture .
- Comparative literature and culture. .
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Introduction: a novel approach to the rise of the Brazilian novel --1. Misterios el 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 José 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 José de Alencar -- 10. Maria Benedita Câmara Bormann's Lésbia: 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 -- Index.
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