A marqueza ensanguentada: o romance de Condessa Dash nos periódicos brasileiros de Norte a Sul

Abstract

The nineteenth-century press in Brazil was an important vehicle for the dissemination of literary culture and intense political and social changes throughout the nineteenth century had the journalism as a witness, as well as a means of spreading all sorts of intellectual manifestations. This certainly included the female literary writing, especially the writing of novels, which they were already producing about two centuries before. In Brazilian journalism, the phenomenon of novels published in space Folhetim in the journal provided an opportunity serving to propagation of many men and female writers, and readers in Brazil, showed preference for foreigners, especially the French. This work focuses on the production of French writer Countess Dash titled The Bloodied Marquise (A Marqueza Ensaguentada), relevant work of nineteenth-century movement in Brazilian newspapers, which seek through reading and also by external issues to it, identify factors that may have contributed to his outstanding movement among to Brazilian newspapers. Explicitly moralizing tone, the text directs female behavior in different roles that she should occupy in the nineteenth society. This puts the plot as material witness of nineteenth-century women's writing that circulated between the Brazilian reading public position, we can’t say for sure whether guiding, encouraging or even influencing, but certainly entertaining.