Migratory Literary Forms: British Novels in Nineteenth-Century Brazil 1

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Author	Vasconcelos, Sandra Guardini
Copyright Year	2017
Description	It has long been a commonplace among Brazilian literary historians and critics that French novels and novelists played a central role in the development and consolidation of the Brazilian novel during the nineteenth century. This chapter takes up this challenge and argues that British novels also made a significant and hitherto unrecognized contribution to the formation of the Brazilian novel as a genre during this period. The process of the formation and consolidation of the novel took about a hundred years in Britain, if Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe is taken as its point of departure and Walter Scott's works as its culmination. The chapter explains the various artifices employed by the country's first writers of fiction aiming, on the one hand, to respond to the moralizing appeal and, on the other, to lend a certain air of truthfulness to their accounts. Book Name: Books and Periodicals in Brazil 1768–1930
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Ending Page	86
Page Count	19
Starting Page	68
DOI	10.4324/9781315096179-5
Language	English
Publisher	Informa UK Limited
Publisher Date	2017-07-05
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Book Name: Books and Periodicals in Brazil 1768–1930 Literary Formation Brazilian Novel Nineteenth Century
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Chapter