Liberalismo e Romantismo no Brasil: discursos e práticas na construção do império brasileiro (1808-1850)

Abstract

Initially understood as a literary category, Romanticism also became a political category, influencing the men who would make Brazil in the 19th century. Occasional poetsdevoted a good part of their writingto building a new sensibility for a new nation that was wanted in the tropics. Toanalyzethissituation, we used the evidentiary method, searching in those bad poems and poets, which were registered in the periodicals from 1808 to 1850, desires for a new homeland and bearers of a thought and an attitude that we can consider pre-romantic