Uma leitura do jornal Imprensa Evangélica a partir do romance Lucila

Abstract

The main objective of this research is to identify the formation of the Protestant Brazilian player the second half of the nineteenth century, specifically, the capital of the Republic at the time, the Rio de Janeiro. For this, we intend to redeem elements that explain the use of a fictional narrative by Evangelical Press newspaper, nineteenth century. Basearemo us in the history of reading, particularly in Roger Chartier, to show that the relationship between text and reader produces effects not only for the history of reading, but also for anyone who cares to study this subject. In addition, the paper aims to show how the newspaper used this feature and how to set up your receptivity and acceptance by readers Protestants living in Brazil. Within the context of the Rio player, we will analyze the possibility of this encounter with an evangelistic strategy of Protestant missionaries sent to Brazil, from the use of a literary work by a Protestant newspaper. This makes the Evangelical Press and Lucila objects fundamental to our understanding of the formation of the Protestant Brazilian player, representing the corpus of this research. The Evangelical Press rare gathered information about the formation of Protestantism in Brazil. From the periodic setting of the newspaper, with its textuality and layout, one of the goals of this work is to verify the possibility to establish the image of a Protestant reader of the second half of the nineteenth century. The Evangelical Press was a religious periodical, had ads on their pages, news releases and several, including on international events. Why be administered and directed by Protestant Christians, the Evangelical Press brought Brazilian readers that era articles and topics related to the Protestant religion, its doctrine and practice of faith. Moreover, the work aims to unite scientific arguments that show the use of fiction in the newspaper, if it really was a way to convince the reader that was used to follow the journal by fidelity to religious information reliable.