To feel, to write and to govern the epistolary practice and. D Luís de Almeida letters, the Second Marquês of Lavradio (1768 - 1779)

• Grant number: 11/51958-4
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants - Publications - Books published in Brazil
• Start date: May 01, 2012
• End date: April 30, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Modern and Contemporary History
• Principal Investigator: Laura de Mello e Souza
• Grantee: Laura de Mello e Souza
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This thesis studies the practice of writing letters in modern times, mainly in the 18th century, including letters as object of study, considering its sense, production, mark of sociability, material aspects, space of sensibility trades and practice of government's device. Thereunto, we analyze some modern manuals of letters and secretary writing. When studying the epistolary practice, the concept of the sensation of speech and the sensation of listening was created, to think letters as voice carrier of the sender, awaking in the addressee the audition, activated by the connection between the senses issue that also considered the circulation of letter between the spaces of sociability and manifestation of the sensible., Like this after thinking letter in theoretical categories, we studied D. Luís de Almeida correspondence, the second Marquês of Lavradio viceroy of Brazil. The institutions that house the correspondence that formed the main corpus of this thesis are in Portugal, BN, AHU, ACL; in Brazil, AN and BN. The corpus was studied particularly gathering quantitative and qualitative information. Finally, the third moment of the study examined the letters, contains to think the colonial government ruled through them, reflecting about the different social roles occupied by D. Luís de Almeida, the performance of the viceroy and its government's problematic and the strategies used to prevent the bad social reputation facing the loss of the territory. (AU)