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Reading Rio de Janeiro: Literature and Society in the Nineteenth Century

2018; Duke University Press; Volume: 98; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1215/00182168-6933743

1527-1900

Mary Ann Mahony,

Latin American Literature Studies

Book Review| August 01 2018 Reading Rio de Janeiro: Literature and Society in the Nineteenth Century Reading Rio de Janeiro: Literature and Society in the Nineteenth Century. By Frank, Zephyr. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 229 pp. Cloth, $60.00. Mary Ann Mahony Mary Ann Mahony Central Connecticut State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (3): 528–529. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-6933743 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Mary Ann Mahony; Reading Rio de Janeiro: Literature and Society in the Nineteenth Century. Hispanic American Historical Review 1 August 2018; 98 (3): 528–529. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-6933743 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsHispanic American Historical Review Search Advanced Search Zephyr Frank's engaging and original new book, Reading Rio de Janeiro: Literature and Society in the Nineteenth Century, sheds new light on the relationship between literature and history but does not fit easily into either genre. Part literary history, part literary analysis, and part study of nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro, the book challenges conventional divisions between history and literature. Frank encourages us to see the novels that he reads—Sonhos d'ouro by José de Alencar, Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, and O coruja by Aluísio Azevedo—as examples of the bildungsroman, or the educational, coming-of-age novel. He argues that all three of the novelists used their fiction to address the same problem: the integration of the individual into society at a time when Rio de Janeiro, if not Brazil as a whole, was undergoing profound social... Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press2018 Issue Section: Eighteenth–Nineteenth Centuries You do not currently have access to this content.