Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction; 1 Reading in Colonial Brazil; 2 Booksellers in Rio de Janeiro: The Book Trade and Circulation of Ideas from 1808 to 1831; 3 Seditious Books and Ideas of Revolution in Brazil (1830-71); 4 Migratory Literary Forms: British Novels in Nineteenth-Century Brazil; 5 The Library that Disappeared: The Rio de Janeiro British Subscription Library; 6 The History of a Pseudo-Dumas Novel: The Hand of the Dead
7 Revista Nacional e Estrangeira (1839-40): A Foreign or a Brazilian Magazine?8 The Role of the Press in the Incorporation of Brazil into the Paris Fashion System; 9 The Brazilian and the French Bas de Page; 10 How to Be a Professional Writer in Nineteenth-Century Brazil; 11 Print Technologies, World News and Narrative Form in Machado de Assis; 12 The Brazilian Book Market in Portugal in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century and the Paradigm Change in Luso-Brazilian Cultural Relations; 13 Popular Editions and Best-sellers at the End of the Nineteenth Century in Brazil
14 The Brazilian Publishing Industry at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: The Path of Monteiro LobatoBibliography; Index