TY - BOOK AU - Vasconcelos,Sandra Guardini T. AU - Silva,Ana Cláudia Suriani da ED - Project Muse. TI - Comparative Perspectives on the Rise of the Brazilian Novel / T2 - Comparative literature and culture SN - 9781787354715 PY - 2020/// CY - London PB - UCL Press KW - Brazilian fiction KW - fast KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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; Open Access N2 - Comparative Perspectives on the Rise of the Brazilian Novel presents a framework for analyzing key nineteenth-century Brazilian novels UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/81878/ ER -