A família nuclear burguesa e a ressignificação do feminino no Brasil do século XIX: um estudo a partir do romance Senhora

Abstract

As part of the social, political, and economic transformations that occurred in the nineteenth century, a new family configuration takes effect in society, mainly redefining the feminine role in the domestic domain. And, it is in this scenario that the writer José de Alencar writes, as part of his literary project, the novel Senhora, whose character-protagonist, Aurélia Camargo, incorporated the figure of the romantic heroine, idealized by the author from the current social standards. Such as the literature, other statements were put into circulation to legitimize the bourgeois values hegemony, besides triggering a growing regulation of subjects' sexuality, significantly altering the customs of the time. Thus, in the present article has as objective to analyze the feminine representation present in the Alencarian novel, without neglecting to contextualize the discursive constructions that circulated in our society, as well as the relations of gender and sexuality that were being established in the considered period.