Comparative Perspectives on the Rise of the Brazilian Novel

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