Revolution and political-literary imagination: The novel Os Maias as a representation of Portuguese society vis-à-vis liberalism
Abstract
The aim of this article is to analyze the novel Os Maias as a product and a producer of a political-literary process of imagination marked by the critique of the Portuguese social reality in the second half of the 19th century. A representation structured vis-à-vis the consolidation of the liberal order in most of Western Europe. The central argument is that Eça de Queirós critically examined the Lusitanian political context in the 19th century by means of the analytical potential of the novel, which is the literary genre of Modernity.
Keywords: Eça de Queirós, Portuguese society, liberalism.
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