Comparative perspectives on the rise of the Brazilian novel / / edited by Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva, Sandra Guardini Vasconcelos.

• Superior document: Comparative literature and culture
• TeilnehmendeR: Silva, Ana Cláudia Suriani da,; Vasconcelos, Sandra Guardini T.,
• Place / Publishing House: London : : University College London,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Comparative literature and culture.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 322 pages) :; illustrations

Comparative Perspectives on the Rise of the Brazilian Novel presents a framework of comparative literature based on a systemic and empirical approach to the study of the novel and applies that framework to the analysis of key nineteenth-century Brazilian novels. The works under examination were published during the period in which the forms and procedures of the novel were acclimatized as the genre established and consolidated itself in Brazil. The 15 original essays by experienced and early career scholars explore the links between themes, narrative paradigms, and techniques of Brazilian, European and North American novels and the development of the Brazilian novel. The European and North American novels cover a wide range of literary traditions and periods, and are in conversation with the different novelistic trends that characterize the rise of the genre in Brazil. Chapters reflect on both canonical and lesser-known Brazilian works from a comparatist perspective: from the first novel by an Afro-Brazilian woman, Maria Firmina dos Reis's Ursula (1859) to Machado de Assis's Dom Casmurro (1900); and from José de Alencar's Indianist novel, Iracema (1865).

Table of Contents

Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: A Novel Approach to the Rise of the Brazilian Novel -- 1 Mislerios del Plata: (Dis)Figuring History to Forge a Space for a Woman's Agency -- 2 The Historical Significance of Memdrias de um sargento de milicias -- 3 A providencia, recordacao 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 Inocencia -- 8 Silences and Voices of Slavery: A escrava Isaura and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl -- 9 The Construction of Pseudo-Modem Individuals in Senhora by Jose de Alencar -- 10 Maria Benedita Camara Bormann's Lesbia: The Creation of the Woman Writer in Brazil -- 11 OAleneu: A Singular Masterpiece about the N in eteenth-Centufy 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 falencia by Julia Lopes de Almeida -- Index.