Abstract
When the Portuguese Royal family arrived in Rio de Janeiro in 1808, the capital started to be transformed into a European-style metropolis importing and interpreting cultural concepts and practices from Europe. With independence from Portugal, the literary scene also focused on creating an independent cultural and national identity. Brazilian serials reflected both trends in the nineteenth century. This chapter analyses the role of the serial Revista Popular as an example of the Brazilian–French cultural contact and the simultaneous search for Brazil’s own national literature.
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There were few public libraries. Of those that did exist, the most important was the Royal Library, which had been taken by the Portuguese royal family to Rio de Janeiro as they fled Europe, and which went on to form the bedrock of the future Brazilian National Library.
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There were also a number of stores that sold books alongside other products.
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Before the arrival of the Portuguese royal family, it was illegal to run a printing press in Brazil.
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The Garnier publishing house was known for exporting erotic literature, among other genres, to the whole of Latin America.
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All translations are mine unless noted otherwise.
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This was not the case with the Jornal das Famílias Brasileiras . The entire journal was printed in Paris.
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Such as O Monarquista, Correio da Tarde, and A Marmota.
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This was also the case with the catalogues in Garnier’s bookshop.
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Le Roman d’un jeune homme pauvre (1859).
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Mémoires de Garibaldi (1860).
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Les étudiants d’Heidelberg (1857).
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The selection of these works and their publication in the Revista Popular was presumably influenced by the fiction on offer in Baptiste Louis Garnier’s bookshop and his knowledge of what would appeal most to his readership. There is evidence that he printed excerpts of works released by his publishing house in the Revista, obviously in the hope of tempting readers to buy the whole book. The journal also reviewed books that were available for purchase in Garnier’s bookshop.
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Les mystères de Paris (1844).
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Les drames de Paris (I. L’Héritage mystérieux) (1857).
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The novel was adapted for the opera in 1870 by Carlos Gomes and was made into numerous films, starting with a silent film in 1912.
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Compare this to Brück-Pamplona’s explanation of Brazilian romanticism: “the Brazilian romanticism is divided in two trends which, however, correlate—one romanticism comes from abroad […] and the other one develops within Brazil. In the first case we observe a romanticism following European models. It is introduced in a moment of new political orientation. However, the internal Brazilian romanticism demonstrates the connection of inspiration and poetry with the Brazilian reality by including its colonial traditions” (114).
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Musser, R. (2019). Brazilian–French Cultural Contact in a Serial Format: The Revista Popular (Rio de Janeiro, 1859–1862). In: Stein, D., Wiele, L. (eds) Nineteenth-Century Serial Narrative in Transnational Perspective, 1830s−1860s. Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15895-8_5
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