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Reading Rio de Janeiro - Literature and Society in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
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Reading Rio de Janeiro - Literature and Society in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
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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 Jose 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
plantations of the past. Some characters grow and triumph in this
setting; others are defeated by it. Though literature infuses this
social history of 19th-century Rio, it is replete with maps,
graphs, non-fiction sources, and statistical data and analysis that
are the historian's stock-in-trade. By connecting a literary
understanding of the social problems with the quantitative data
traditional historical methods provide, Frank creates a richer and
deeper understanding of society in 19th-century Rio.
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