A terceira menina

Sandra Guardini Teixeira Vasconcelos

doi:10.11606/issn.2237-1184.v0i9p190-203

The third girl

Authors

Sandra Guardini Teixeira Vasconcelos Universidade de São Paulo (USP)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2237-1184.v0i9p190-203

Keywords:

Novel and social life, centre and periphery, popular life and bourgeois rationalisation, naturalism, female characters.

Abstract

This article aims to discuss Tess of the D'Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy, in the light of Roberto Schwarz's Duas meninas in order to reflect on the effectiveness of the Brazilian critic's reading of Dom Casmurro and Minha vida de menina to investigate the impasses of agrarian capitalism in England at the close of the 19th century.