“O Anjo das Donzelas”: a construção do comportamento feminino nos contos de Machado de Assis (1858-1878).

Abstract

in the nineteenth century, the newspapers ran their pages more than the daily political news or police. There was a time when telling a good story was a sign of good sales too. For this the preachers told with the help of writers who gave their pages: fashion, literature, education, morals, etiquette, not only after serious news lived. The play was much needed due to a constituency in particular, with an appetite for "the rage of Paris" - women. It is responsible for addressing them novelists who contracted the newspapers had the responsibility to tell good story and sell many newspapers. Among the narrative techniques used, there was the tale, the novel, the chronic and own novel. Written in chapters that lasted from weeks to months and were designed to engage your readers. Among these very styles that inhabited the newspapers in the two halves of the nineteenth century, the tale was unusual, as it struggled to adapt to these lands by writers such as Machado de Assis. We focus our discussion on the construction of female behavior in the short stories of Machado de Assis and how it is used to rouse the tales of everyday practices in Rio, during the period known as its romantic phase - from 1858 to 1878 - and how, this construction, education stirred up by established rules and standards of "good tone".