Júlia Lopes de Almeida e Carolina Nabuco: uma escrita bem-comportada?

Abstract

This very research holds a study on following novels A Intrusa (1908), of Júlia Lopes de Almeida (1862-1934), and A sucessora (1934), of Maria Carolina Nabuco de Araújo (1890-1981). The aim on focus is to analyze the corpus proposed, based on structural (narrator, characters and spaces) and subjective elements (education, work and family), in order to verify till which level these novels can be considered as models of well behaved writing. We primarily take for granted that the chosen novels only can be considered well behaved beyond their social and historical context, in which both writers were necessarily immerged to produce their writing. We come to an end emphasizing the importance of Júlia Lopes de Almeida and Carolina Nabuco in the constitution of a Brazilian female literature tradition, in which they can easily occupy a neat place, not only comparing to their predecessors, otherwise being actual pioneers of eighteenth Brazilian belles letters, so distinguished only by its patriarchs.