THE EPILOGUE OF ROMANTICISM

Addressing the decline of romanticism in Brazil during the latter half of the nineteenth century, the article focuses on the polemic waged b etween Jose de Alencar and Joaquim Nabuco in 1876. Through an analysis of documents on this polemic that takes into account the Second Reign 's political and intellectual crisis, the purposes is to demonstrate h ow literature and politics overlapped in defining nationality The text then moves on to identify the crisis that would come to rupture this link at the end of the nineteenth century in response to changes in th e political and intellectual scenario.