Instruct, moralize and civilize: nation and society in the Ilustração do Brasil (1876-1880) and Ilustração popular (1876-1877)

• Grant number: 17/20828-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: March 01, 2018
• End date: February 29, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of Brazil
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Tania Regina de Luca
• Grantee: Helen de Oliveira Silva
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL-ASSIS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Assis. Assis , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Throughout the 19th century predominated in Brazil the humorous lithographic press, but that it coexisted with newspapers considered serious, who strove to incorporate in their pages the woodcut, as in the case of the European press. This was the Ilustração do Brasil (RJ, 1876-1880) and your relative the Ilustração Popular (RJ, 1876-1877), the both founded by Charles F. de Vivaldi (1824-1902), that would have had the aid of his daughter, Corina de Vivaldi (1859-1892). These publications stood out in the late 1870s for attempting to supply the growing demand for engravings in Brazil and offer their related readers public - the intellectual elite and the less well-off, respectively, - luxury prints. Taking them as source and object it is intended to carry out a systematic analysis of their content in order to highlight what was chosen to be published in each of the printed and how such content contributed to forge a certain apprehension about the Brazilian nation and society. Against the debates about the construction of nationality from the key romanticism and/or scientism, these publications placed themselves as defenders of modernity and aspired to instruct, moralize and civilize, complying, thus, the role they attributed to the press. (AU)

Academic Publications

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

SILVA, Helen de Oliveira. Instruct, moralize and civilize: nation and society in the Ilustração do Brasil (RJ, 1876-1880) and Ilustração Popular (RJ, 1876-1877). 2020. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências e Letras. Assis Assis.