Naturalism Against Nature
Kinship and Degeneracy in Fin-de-siècle Portugal and Brazil

David J. Bailey

Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures 48

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21 January 2020  •  194pp

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‘On one such occasion, he stopped in front of the mirror and looked at himself very carefully, trying to discover on his discoloured face anything, any sign that would denounce the black race. He observed himself well, separating his hair at the the roots, stretching the skin on his cheeks, examining his nostrils and teeth; finally he flung the mirror onto the dresser, consumed by an immense and fathomless dissatisfaction.’

An age of freak shows, sexual pathologies and scientific racism, the late-nineteenth century saw doom-laden predictions made about the future of Europe’s cultural and economic periphery, supposedly beset by endemic licentiousness and darker skin. Querying the widespread view that Naturalist literatures reinforced such prejudices, David J. Bailey charts their playful travels around the Lusophone world, where a perceived breakdown of family, nation and empire both confirmed and threatened the authority of European ‘science’. Drawing on queer and postcolonial theory, contemporaneous thought, and encompassing a range of extraordinary and often humorous texts, from scandalised tales of pederasty to the biting social critiques of Eça de Queirós, Bailey uncovers a dynamic, transatlantic network of Portuguese and Brazilian writers who, in compelling and remarkably similar ways, resisted the devastating implications of ‘scientific’ approaches to life and love at the fin de siècle.

David Bailey is a Lecturer in Portuguese Cultural Studies at the University of Manchester.

Reviews:

  • ‘Naturalism against Nature considerably expands our understanding of how the international literary movement known as Naturalism manifested itself in selected but fully representative writers in Portugal and Brazil... A very useful study and one that should be regarded as required reading for all students and scholars interested in Naturalism and its importance to the Lusophone world.’ — Earl E. Fitz, Bulletin of Spanish Studies 97.9, October 2020, 1559-1560 (full text online)
  • ‘The transnational dimensions of literary Naturalism operating between Brazil and Portugal are explored in this excellently written book by David Bailey.’ — Richard Cleminson, Modern Language Review 116.4, October 2021, 667-68 (full text online)
  • ‘Contribui o estudo, portanto, para uma melhor compreensão da particularidade da expressão literária naturalista em Portugal e no Brasil.’ — Patrícia H. Baialuna de Andrade, Journal of Lusophone Studies 6.1, Spring 2021

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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
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Chapter 1 Abel Botelho
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Chapter 2 Eça De Queirós
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Chapter 3 Aluísio Azevedo
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Chapter 4 Adolfo Caminha
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Concluding Remarks
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Bailey, David J., Naturalism Against Nature: Kinship and Degeneracy in Fin-de-siècle Portugal and Brazil, Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures, 48 (Legenda, 2020)

First footnote reference: 35 David J. Bailey, Naturalism Against Nature: Kinship and Degeneracy in Fin-de-siècle Portugal and Brazil, Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures, 48 (Legenda, 2020), p. 21.

Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Bailey, p. 47.

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Bailey, David J.. 2020. Naturalism Against Nature: Kinship and Degeneracy in Fin-de-siècle Portugal and Brazil, Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures, 48 (Legenda)

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