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Record Nr.

UNISA996320719103316

Titolo

The eighteenth century / / edited by Bruno Carvalho

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dartmouth, Massachusetts : , : Tagus Press, Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

9781933227788

9781933227771

ISSN

2573-1432

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 179 pages)

Collana

Portuguese literary and cultural studies, , 2573-1432 ; ; 29 (Fall 2016)

Soggetti

Eighteenth century

Enlightenment - Portuguese-speaking countries

Portuguese literature - History and criticism

Enlightenment

Portuguese literature

Civilization

Intellectual life

Portuguese-speaking countries Civilization Eighteenth century

Portuguese-speaking countries Intellectual life Eighteenth century

Portuguese-speaking countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

; The eighteenth century. ; Introduction : Partial enlightenments : precedents & possibilities for the 18th century in Luso-Brazilian studies / Bruno Carvalho -- Bosque nos trópicos : natureza e sociabilidade no Rio de Janeiro setecentista / Claudete Daflon -- Homens da boa pena e os manuscritos iluminados na Capitania de Minas Gerais no século XVIII / Márcia Almada -- Discourse and disaster : a universal history of Lisbon's 1755 earthquake / Estela Vieira -- Estrangeirados, iluminismo, enlightenment : uma revisitação de conceitos no contexto português / Onésimo T. Almeida -- Aleijadinho, the "Baroque hero," and Brazilian national identity / Guiomar de Grammont -- ; Essays. Traições de Adolfo Caminha : bom Crioulo e a "crioulização" do naturalismo / David



J. Bailey -- Tapia

Sommario/riassunto

"Challenging notions of the Portuguese-speaking world as merely “backwards” or obscurantist during the eighteenth century, this issue explores how the circulation of Enlightenment-era discourses engendered creative appropriations, and unsettling compromises between divergent worldviews. The issue showcases the vibrant and diverse scholarship on the period in Portuguese and Brazilian literary and cultural studies, placing the Lusophone world in transatlantic and hemispheric contexts, while shedding light on several of its specific dimensions" -- Publisher's description.