Nos caminhos da pena de um romancista do século XIX: o Rio de Janeiro de Diva, Lucíola e Senhora

Abstract

This article seeks to understand the rela- tions between urban spaces in nine- teenth century Rio de Janeiro and the gender relations expressed in José de Alencar’s narrative in his urban femi- nine novels: Diva, Lucíola and Senhora. Changes in the capital of the Empire in the nineteenth century provoked new expectations about the normatization of circulation expressed in these novels. José de Alencar was a novelist, play- wright, chronicler, parliamentarian and statesman of the Brazilian Empire. In all these activities the political dimension, understood as the space for the articula- tion of the social and its representation, was strongly present.