“Ser” mulher, “Ser” solteira: imagens da solteirona e do casamento a partir da literatura brasileira.

Abstract

The literature has been acting in the historiographical know in recent decades, a great influence. Discussions about the history and literature show that the historian and writer have in common traits with respect to the production of their works. Accordingly, the buildings on the female universe deserve attention in the historiography and literary works, since the marriage shall be understood as part of the woman's life and its absence is shown as a "mockery", an order imposed by a patriarchal society. In addition to singles is represented as a world surrounded by frustrations and dreams stopped. From the literary discourse is possible to hold an examination of the female condition in the nineteenth century, as the writer, establishing from a social place, images for this type of woman. The literary work by being surrounded by values and ideology guides the historian to see it as an instrument to be used in their research.