Comparative Perspectives on the Rise of the Brazilian Novel (Comparative Literature and Culture)

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, therefore, 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. Contents List of Contributors Introduction: A Novel Approach to the Rise of the Brazilian Novel (Dis)placing and (De)centring Novels The Novel as an Inter/transnational Genre The Brazilian Case The Chapters 1 Misterios del Plata: (Dis)Figuring History to Forge a Space for a Woman’s Agency Borderline Territories: Fiction, History and Politics Woman and Nation: Beyond Domestic Fiction 2 The Historical Significance of Memórias de um sargento de milícias General Features Narrative Rhythm and Brazilian Society Quarrelsome Disposition Memórias de um sargento de milícias in the Development of the Early Brazilian Novel 3 A providência, recordação dos tempos coloniais and the Novel in Brazil The Historical Novel Mystery Story Christian Preaching 4 Maria Firmina dos Reis and the First Afro-Brazilian Novel Introduction: Maria Firmina dos Reis’s Historical Context Colonial Black Reason At the Beginnings of a New Black Reason Intersectionality and the Critique of Patriarchal Reason 5 ‘A suspicious sound interrupted the gentle harmony’: Iracema by José de Alencar Incongruities Archery Poem Voice 6 Displaced Experience and Magic Compromise Macedo’s Works and Contradictions The Ironic Eyeglass Comparative Ironies 7 Brazilian Landscape: A Study of Inocência Space: Landscape and the Backlands The Novel’s Plot and Characters Romantic Topoi 8 Silences and Voices of Slavery: A escrava Isaura and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Introduction: The Abolitionist Literature, Hybrid Forms A escrava Isaura Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Critical/Theoretical Issues: Jacques Derrida’s Supplement Final Remarks: Isaura, Incidents 9 The Construction of Pseudo-Modern Individuals in Senhora by José de Alencar José de Alencar’s Views on Writing Novels in Brazil Senhora: The Complex Adjustment of European Models of the Novel to the Brazilian Context Fernando Seixas: The Rationale of the Dependant Aurélia Camargo: The Rationale of the Master Brazil on the threshold of bourgeois society 10 Maria Benedita Câmara Bormann’s Lésbia: The Creation of the Woman Writer in Brazil Maria Benedita Câmara Bormann’s Lésbia: Context and Themes Maria Benedita Câmara Bormann: Life and Work Lésbia: Plot and Theme Brazil: Society and Letters Influences and Affiliations The Return of the Quest: Denouement and Suicide Conclusion 11 O Ateneu: A Singular Masterpiece about the Nineteenth-Century Civilizational Crisis A Negative Bildung: Against the Institution Vitalism and Sexuality: Against the Degradation of Bodily Energy 12 O aborto and the Rise of Erotic Popular Print in Late Nineteenth-Century Brazil Pedro Quaresma and the Market for Erotic Popular Printed Matter O aborto [The Abortion] as Erotic Popular Literature Conclusion 13 Machado de Assis and the Novel Beyond Boundaries Ideas on the Novel Novelistic Paradigms Machado’s Turnaround: New Paths Novels in Crisis 14 Capitu against the Elegiac Narrator Lord Jim: The Double The Three Elements of the Elegiac Romance The Title: Dom Casmurro and not Capitu Bento’s Betrayal A Double Elegy? Conclusion 15 On Moral and Financial Bankruptcy: Adultery and Financial Speculation in A falência by Júlia Lopes de Almeida Fictions of Financial Futures From Fictional Futures to Fantasies of Adultery Conclusion: Reading as Resistance (against the Textual Attitude) Index

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), to Júlia Lopes de Almeida’s A Falência (The Bankruptcy, 1901).

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), to Júlia Lopes de Almeida's A Falência ( The Bankruptcy , 1901). Comparative Perspectives on the Rise of the Brazilian Novel presents a framework for analyzing key nineteenth-century Brazilian novels __Comparative Perspectives on the Rise of the Brazilian Novel__