Os intelectuais como intérpretes da Nação: a Revista <i>Niterói</i> e a introdução do romantismo no Brasil

Abstract

The adherence of Latin American intelectuals to Romanticism occurred due to the formation of new nations, following political liberations. They meant to accomplish political independence, to expand it to the cultural sphere, especially to arts, literature and to the study of the national past. At that period the social group of intelectuals distinguished themselves through the expansion of literacy, the development of relations within intelectual, literary and artistic camps, and the creation of places of sociability. The introduction of the romantic world-view and values in Brazil, was due to Niterói, a periodical published in Paris in 1836, which proposed the foundation of a new native and original literature, as well as a new form of interpreting brazilian society, searching for its spiritual and material advancement.