‘A NATIONAL UNITY OF INTERESTS AND AFFECTIONS’: FRAMEWORKS OF THE UNION IN THE EARLY BRAZILIAN NOVEL

Abstract Novelistic fiction from the United Kingdom has been consistently acknowledged as a major repository of narrative paradigms for the incipient Brazilian novel. Genres originally offering a narrative solution for tensions embedded throughout British and Irish society would cross the Atlantic and, by mid-nineteenth century, be rendered instrumental for structuring local experience. Among these genres, arguably, was the national tale. National tales aimed to bridge the social dilemmas inherent to a multicultural state like the United Kingdom and, more broadly, the British Empire. Works suc...

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