The Transatlantic Circulation of Novels Between Europe and Brazil, 1789-1914 [Hardcover]

This book brings a renewed critical focus to the history of novel writing, publishing, selling and reading, expanding its viewing beyond national territories. Relying on primary sources (such as advertisements, censorship reviews, publisher and bookstore catalogues), the book examines the paths taken by novels in their shifts between Europe and Brazil, investigates the flow of translations in both directions, pays attention to the successful novels of the time and analyses the critical response to fiction in both sides of the Atlantic. It reveals that neither nineteenth century culture can be properly understood by focusing on a single territory, nor literature can be fully perceived by looking only to the texts, ignoring their material existence and their place in social and economical practices.

Introduction.- Fiction as an Element of Cultural Connection; Marcia Abreu.- PART I: READING NOVELS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC.- Chapter 1: A Transnational Literate Community: Reactions to Novels in Europe and Brazil; M?rcia Abreu.- Chapter 2: The Literary Taste for Novels in the Portugese Subscription Library in Rio de Janeiro; Alexandro Henrique Paix?o.- Chapter 3: The Roman Judiciaire and Brazilian Literature: Reception, Meanings and Appropriations; Ana Gomes Porto.- Chapter 4: The Bachelor's Library: Pornographic Books on the Brazil - Europe Circuit in the Late Nineteenth Century; Leonardo Mendes.- Chapter 5: Evaluation of Literature at the End of the Nineteenth Century: Change and Permanence in Critical Discourse; Leandro Thomaz Almeida.- PART II: TRANSLATIONS.- Chapter 6: Circuits and Crossings: The Case of A Fam?lia EllC6