Reading Rio de Janeiro
Literature and Society in the Nineteenth Century
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 José 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 as they encounter the newly mobile, capitalist, urban society, so different from the slave-based plan…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8047-9730-6
- EAN: 9780804797306
- Produktnummer: 23011446
- Verlag: Stanford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 248 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 12'079 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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Zephyr Frank
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