Reading Rio de Janeiro : literature and society in the nineteenth century / Zephyr Frank.
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TextPublisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 229 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780804797306
- 0804797307
- Brazilian fiction -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Literature and society -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro -- History -- 19th century
- Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese
- HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America
- Brazilian fiction
- Literature and society
- Social conditions
- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro
- 1800-1899
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- PQ9601 .F67 2016eb
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-213) and index.
Introduction : the Brazilian Bildungsroman -- Sonhos d'ouro -- Mem�orias p�ostumas de Br�as Cubas -- O coruja -- Sentimental educations -- Marriage and money -- Problems of spatial practice.
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'Reading Rio de Janeiro' blazes a new trail for understanding the cultural history of 19th-century Brazil. To bring the social fabric of Rio de Janeiro alive, Zephyr Frank flips the historian's usual interest in literature as a source of evidence and, instead, uses the historical context to understand literature. By focusing on the theme of social integration through the novels of Jose de Alencar, Machado de Assis, and Aluisio Azevedo, the author draws the reader's attention to the way characters are caught between conflicting moral imperatives.
English.
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