A tropical belle époque : elite culture and society in turn-of-the-century Rio de Janeiro
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A tropical belle époque : elite culture and society in turn-of-the-century Rio de Janeiro
(Cambridge Latin American studies, 62)
Cambridge University Press, 1987
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Bibliography: p. 308-326
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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This book, originally published in 1987, is a socio-cultural analysis of a tropical belle epoque: Rio de Janeiro between 1898 and 1914. It relates how the city's elite evolved from the semi-rural, slave-owning patriarchy of the coffee-port seat of a monarchy into an urbane, professional, rentier upper crust dominating the centre of a 'modernising' oligarchical republic. It explores such varied topics as architecture, literature, prostitution, urban reform, the family, secondary schools, and the salon. It evokes a milieu increasingly marked by Europe, demonstrating how French and English culture permeated the lives of elite members who adapted it to their needs and perspectives as a dominant stratum of relatively recent and varied origin. This exploration of cultural 'dependency' in a unique, cosmopolitan, fin-de-siecle urban culture will also interest those concerned with the broader questions of culture and colonialism during the high tide of European imperialism.
Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of maps and figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- A note on Brazilian Portuguese orthography and usage
- 1. Rio de Janeiro: capital of the Brazilian nineteenth century
- 2. Formal institutions of the elite
- 3. The salon and the emergence of high society
- 4. Domestic institutions of the elite
- 5. The rise of consumer fetishism
- 6. The literary belle epoque in Rio: the end of the Brazilian nineteenth century
- Conclusion
- Appendix: defining the elite
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
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