The royalty reads novels: the presence of novels in the imperial library and in personal documents of the Brazilian imperial family

• Grant number: 16/06129-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: July 01, 2016
• End date: June 30, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Márcia Azevedo de Abreu
• Grantee: Larissa de Assumpção
• Host Institution: Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (IEL). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 11/07342-9 - The transatlantic circulation of printed matter: the globalisation of culture in the 19th Century, AP.TEM

Abstract

This project aims to analyze the presence of novels in the Imperial Library and in personal documents of the Brazilian Imperial Family. The corpus of this research consists in the list of novels of the Teresa Cristina Collection of the National Library Foundation, the manuscript catalogue of the books that belonged to the Empress Teresa Cristina and in the documents, letters and diaries left by the Brazilian Imperial Family and that are part of the collection of the Imperial Museum of Petrópolis. The list of books that belonged to the Russian Imperial Family, and that are part of the Library of Congress of the United States, will be used as a source of comparison between the Imperial Library and other noble 19th-century library. Manuals about the composition of libraries and criticisms published in the press in the 19th century will also be used to analyses the Imperial Library, and to help to understand the canonicity of the novels that were part of the Brazilian Imperial Library. These comparisons, as well as the analysis of the presence of novels in documents of the Brazilian Imperial Family and of the main languages, places of publication and authors in the Imperial Library and in the list of books that belonged to the Empress Teresa Cristina can bring important information about the circulation of novels in the 19th century and about the reading practices of the Imperial Family. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

ASSUMPÇÃO, Larissa de. Between letters and libraries: the presence of novels in Brazil and Russia in the Nineteenth Century. 2018. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem Campinas, SP.