Entre quatro paredes: a família portuguesa na narrativa de ficção do fim do século XIX

Abstract

The present study has as a cut the representation of the finissecular household, according to the fictional prose of six authors in evidence in the second half of the eight hundred. Júlio Dinis and Camilo Castelo Branco were the forerunners of a new literary periodization; José Maria Eça de Queirós, José Valentim Fialho de Almeida, Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho and José Augusto Vieira incorporated the precepts of realism-naturalism and extrapolated their borders. In composing the scene of the time, it is possible to understand that the nineteenth century was marked by changes of scientific and technological nature. The paradigm shift occurred through the humanities, which gave man a holistic view, and began to lose space for scientific discourse. The permeability between the public space and the private space, in turn, has repercussions on the households socioeconomic and political issues of the period, and generates concrete demands in the field of religion, education and law. In the meantime, roles are reconfigured within the family, with the fading of the father figure and the valuation of motherhood. The writers attentive to the changes reveal a dynamic process between four walls and compose new albums of the Portuguese finissecular family, to be investigated.