Realidades, desejos, crimes e ficções: as cidades de Camilo Castelo Branco e Gervásio Lobato

• Ano de defesa: 2017
• Autor(a) principal: Castro, Andreia Alves Monteiro de
• Orientador(a): David, Sérgio Nazar
• Banca de defesa: Oliveira, Paulo Fernando da Motta de , Silva, Dalva Maria Calvão da , Ferreira, Tânia Maria Tavares Bessone da Cruz , Batalha, Maria Cristina
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras
• Departamento: Centro de Educação e Humanidades::Instituto de Letras
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Literatura criminal; Romance oitocentista; Romance folhetim; Eugène Sue; Camilo Castelo Branco; Gervásio Lobato; Castelo Branco, Camilo, 1825-1890 Crítica e interpretação; Lobato, Gervásio, 1850-1895 Crítica e interpretação; Castelo Branco, Camilo, 1825-1890. Mistérios de Lisboa; Castelo Branco, Camilo, 1825-1890. Memórias do cárcere; Lobato, Gervásio, 1850-1895. Os mistérios do Porto; Crime na literatura
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Criminal literature; Eighteenth-century novels; Serial novels
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS::LITERATURA COMPARADA
• Link de acesso: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/6179

The goal for this thesis is to analyse, using compared perspectives, how Camilo Castelo Branco (1825-1890) and Gervásio Lobato (1850-1895) represented and discussed the transformations of the concept of crime and strategies of criminality combat on the second half of the XIX century in Portugal. The great population increase, the defence of private property, the new work relations and the income concentration heightened the conflict between the elite and the popular class of the two larger urban centres: Lisbon and Porto. The fear and the feeling of insecurity made poverty become a crime, marginalised and pushed to the cities outskirts. The police force and the judicial array reinforced such stigmatising process, restricting the mobility and rights for the so-called dangerous classes . Through the novels Mistérios de Lisboa (1854) and Memórias do Cárcere (1862), Camilo displays that the wealthy gentry and bourgeoisie, far from needing to commit transgressions to guarantee their subsistence, used all sorts of violence to keep their honour and realise their dirtiest desires. Jail, back then, was a destiny for only the poorest felons. The life accounts from his fellow cellmates and from other two criminals that he intended to help reveal that the writer also defended that all of those who suffer for mistakes they made deserved a second chance. At the end of the eighteenth century, investigators, physicians and experts relief on a new scientific apparatus to prove the occurrence and find out the authorship of a crime. The periodicals and the romances began to depict and register such procedures in detail. Gervásio Lobato, who paid close attention to the science innovations translated to literature, approached, in Os Mysterios do Porto (1890-1891), the sufferings and aspirations of those who couldn t or who didn t manage to fit in the common sense, and because of that more susceptible to delinquency. In Camilo, there is a certain compassion for all that is human on the foreground. In Gervásio, the accusation addressed to society shines