Joaquim Manuel de Macedo's criticism trajectory

Author(s)

Leandro Thomaz de Almeida

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
• Defense date: 2008-05-16

Examining board members

Márcia Abreu; Jefferson Cano; Eduardo Vieira Martins

• Advisor: Márcia Abreu

Abstract

The evaluation of the novels of Joaquim Manuel de Macedo, at the time of their release, was predominantly of praise. This critical reception, however, conflicts with the previous one, especially of the literary works of the 20th century, which crystallized an evaluation of the Macedo novels, marking them as examples of childishness and sentimentalism. Thus, analyzing this first reception, noticing the conventions that regulated the Romanesque genre at that time, and the way in which Macedo inserted his production into this scenario, is a task that will certainly shed new light on the works of Macedo, which will reduce to relativity the anachronism that often regulates this later critical reception (AU)