TY  - BOOK
AU  - Silva,Ana Cláudia Suriani da
AU  - Vasconcelos,Sandra Guardini T.
TI  - Comparative perspectives on the rise of the Brazilian novel
T2  - Comparative literature and culture
SN  - 9781787354739
PB  - UCL Press
KW  - Brazilian fiction
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - This book is published under a Creative Commons 4.0 International licence (CC BY4.0); 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; Electronic reproduction; London; UCL Press; 2020; Available in PDF format; Description based on contents viewed 18 May 2020
UR  - https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787354715
ER  -