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1 online resource |
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data file rda |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Online resource ; title from PDF title page (EBSCO ; viewed May 15, 2020) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- 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 José de Alencar -- 6. Displaced Experience and Magic Compromise |
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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 |
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15. On Moral and Financial Bankruptcy: Adultery and Financial Speculation in A falência by Júlia Lopes de Almeida -- Index |
| Summary |
Comparative Perspectives on the Rise of the Brazilian Novel presents a framework for analyzing key nineteenth-century Brazilian novels. |
| Subject |
Brazilian fiction -- History and criticism.
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Brazilian fiction. (OCoLC)fst00838105
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Added Author |
Silva, Ana Cláudia Suriani da, editor.
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Vasconcelos, Sandra Guardini T., editor.
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| ISBN |
9781787354715 (electronic book) |
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1787354717 (electronic book) |
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