The nineteenth-century historical fiction : settings of historic and literary Varnhagen and Alexandre Herculano

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Essa dissertação propõe uma análise das obras do historiador lusitano Alexandre Herculano e do brasileiro Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen, buscando compreender as relações entre a história e a ficção nos escritos literários do século XIX e a forma como essas duas fontes de conhecimento dialogaram no contexto romântico português. Ao utilizarem a história como base temática para suas narrativas, escreveram textos que atravessaram as fronteiras de uma verdade histórica objetiva, ao mesmo tempo em que criaram universos ficcionais que já não podiam ser considerados como essencialmente imaginativos. Considerando as características especificas das obras de cada autor, a meta é investigar a relação desses escritores entre si e sua importância na construção e difusão do conhecimento histórico e literário oitocentista.This study proposes an analysis of the works of the two historians, the Portuguese Alexandre Herculano and the Brazilian Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen, seeking to understand the relationship between history and fiction in literary writings of the nineteenth century and how these two sources of knowledge were related in the context of the Portuguese Romanticism. By using the History as the thematic basis for their narratives, these authors wrote texts that crossed the boundaries of an objective historical truth in the same time they were creating fictional universes that could no longer be considered as essentially imaginative. Considering the specific characteristics of the works of each author, the goal is to investigate the relationship between these writers themselves and their importance in the development and dissemination of historical and literary knowledge in the nineteenth century

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