As cartas em o Carapuceiro (1832 – 1842) e The Spectator (1711-1712)

Abstract

This work is the result of readings taken during a PIBIC/CNPq research, on the study of letters in the journals of the nineteenth century, and intends to resume the practice of writing and reading letters, but also to highlight the importance of the textual genre letter in the periodic charts. The aim of this work is to analyze, from a perspective of representation of women, the letters, corpus of this research, published in the journal The Carapuceiro from Recife (1832-1842). Following ideas of Pallares-Burke (1995), we have found through that journal, how the editor and Priest Miguel Lopes Gama do Sacramento appropriated the letters of the English newspaper The Spectator (1711), adapting them to the Brazilian reality and more specifically to Pernambuco society of that time. This work exposes the ownership the careful process of adapting the texts to the audience to which the paper was addressed. Importantly, even though they belonged to different periods, both newspapers had the same purpose, to educate their readers and honor the principles of impartiality. This research is supported by theoretical studies by Freyre (2008) and Pallares-Burke (1995) to better understand and realize the historical context of that time; Nascimento (1969), to restore the historiography of press of Pernambuco during the nineteenth century; beyond Chartier (1990), that contributed to our studies on the concept of representation, and especially on adaptation. We have also made use of Barbosa (2007), Abreu (2003), Martins and Luca (2011), Del Priori (2005) and Gay (1990), these were essential to understand the movement of epistolary productions in the XIX century’s and the historical context which O Carapuceiro that was inserted.