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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Introduction: A Novel Approach to the Rise of the Brazilian Novel / Sandra Guardini Vasconcelos and Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva -- Misterios el Plata: (Dis)Figuring History to Forge a Space for a Woman's Agency / Rita Terezinha Schmidt -- The Historical Significance of Memórias de um sargento de milícias / Edu Teruki Otsuka -- A providência, recordação dos tempos coloniais and the Novel in Brazil / Marcus Vinicius Nogueira Soares -- Maria Firmina dos Reis and the First Afro-Brazilian Novel / Eduardo de Assis Duarte -- 'A suspicious sound interrupted the gentle harmony': Iracema, by José de Alencar / Thiago Rhys Bezerra Cass -- Displaced Experience and Magic Compromise / Jorge de Almeida -- Brazilian Landscape: A Study of Inocência / Eduardo Vieira Martins -- Silences and Voices of Slavery: A escrava Isaura and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl / Heloisa Toller Gomes -- The Construction of Pseudo-Modern Individuals in Senhora by José de Alencar / Maria Eulália Ramicelli -- Maria Benedita Câmara Bormann's Lésbia: The Creation of the Woman Writer in Brazil / Margaret Anne Clarke -- O Ateneu: A Singular Masterpiece about the Nineteenth-Century Civilizational Crisis / André Luiz Barros da Silva -- O aborto and the Rise of Erotic Popular Print in Late Nineteenth-Century Brazil / Leonardo Mendes -- Machado de Assis and the Novel / Sandra Guardini Vasconcelos -- Capitu against the Elegiac Narrator / Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva -- On Moral and Financial Bankruptcy: Adultery and Financial Speculation in A falência by Júlia Lopes de Almeida / Cintia Kozonoi Vezzani.

Comparative perspectives on the rise of the Brazilian novel presents a framework for analyzing key nineteenth-century Brazilian novels.

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