Comparative Perspectives on the Rise of the Brazilian Novel /  
edited by Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva, Sandra Guardini Vasconcelos. 
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<br/><br/>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 Jose de Alencar -- 6. Displaced Experience and Magic Compromise -- 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 Jose de Alencar -- 10. Maria Benedita Câmara Bormann's Lesbia : 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 -- 15. On Moral and Financial Bankruptcy : Adultery and Financial Speculation in A falência by Júlia Lopes de Almeida. 
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<br/><br/> Comparative Perspectives on the Rise of the Brazilian Novel presents a framework for analyzing key nineteenth-century Brazilian novels. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781787354715 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Brazilian fiction.<br/>Brazilian fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Criticism, interpretation, etc.<br/>Electronic books.