The gazeta of Rio de Janeiro and it's impact on life and thought during the luso-brazilian empire (1808-1821)

Author(s)

Juliana Gesuelli Meirelles

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
• Defense date: 2006-02-13

Examining board members

Leila Mezan Algranti; Lúcia Maria Bastos Pereira das Neves; Vavy Pacheco Borges

• Advisor: Leila Mezan Algranti

Abstract

The purpose of this dissertation is to reexamine the importance of the Gazeta do Rio de Janeiro for the Luso-Brazilian monarchy during the years of D. Joao VI's residence in Brazil (1808-1821). The approach is transatlantic, in keeping with the fact that the newspaper was read on both sides of the Atlantic throughout this period. Because the Gazeta do Rio de Janeiro is considered by Brazilian historians to be the country's first newspaper, the dissertation investigates how it was thought of at the time and what this tells us about the journalistic tradition to which it belonged. To this end we identify what the paper's editorials tell us about the period, the role of the readers in the production and reception of the news, and the relationship between the understanding of the newspaper's role and the principal political issues that were publicly debated during D. Joao's regency (AU)