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Almeida Garrett. Uma Biografia Política e Parlamentar
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Almeida Garrett é considerado o grande poeta, escritor, orador e intelectual romântico da primeira metade do século XIX. A sua reputação como orador e actor político é inseparável de um longo tirocínio no teatro, no jornalismo e na literatura. Era um novo tipo de notoriedade, construído em vários campos e deste modo potenciado. A partir de 1836, tentou sempre reeleger-se como deputado e, no final da vida, foi elevado a par do Reino. Colaborou com sucessivos governos e chegou a ministro. No entanto, a sua actividade como político e como deputado nunca foi objecto de um estudo completo e sistemático, mesmo considerando a biografia monumental de Francisco Gomes de Amorim (1881-1884) e alguns trabalhos relativos ao vintismo e ao primeiro cartismo. Esta dissertação pretende recuperar o Garrett político e parlamentar, enquadrando-o no contexto intelectual e político da época e nas várias transformações do liberalismo português. Iremos fazer uma leitura fina da obra, da correspondência, da participação que desenvolveu no teatro e no jornalismo, e das suas muitas intervenções nas Cortes. Sempre que possível, discutiremos a veracidade de narrativas hagiográficas e de lendas deprimentes que se foram colando à sua figura de dandy e artista. O poeta era uma voz pública, mas uma voz que se procurava colocar num outro nível, acima das paixões, livre de compromissos e mais próxima da verdade. Era uma nova oratória decorrente de um compromisso romântico, mas que se dissolveria nas décadas finais do século XIX, com o crescente afastamento entre a cultura e a política.
Almeida Garrett is considered the great Portuguese poet, writer, parliamentary performer and romantic intellectual of the first half of the 19th century. His reputation as a tribune and political persona are inseparable from a long training made in theatre and playwriting, journalism and literature. From 1836 onwards, Garrett never forgot his parliamentary career and his proximity to power networks. He was several times re-elected and, at the end of his life, ascended to the House of Peers. He worked in government commissions and became a minister himself. However, his life as a politician and MP has never been the subject of a systematic study, even considering the monumental biography of Francisco Gomes de Amorim (1881-1884) or some works about the 1820’s. This dissertation aims to analyse the Almeida Garrett’s performance and ideas as a politician and parliamentary persona and to place them in the intellectual and political context of his time. We will do a close reading of his literary works, correspondence, participation in theatre and journalism, and his many interventions and speeches in Cortes. We will also discuss his hagiographical narratives, and the rumours and character attacks that followed his flamboyant personality. The poet was a public voice, but a voice that aspired to belong to a higher level, above passions, free from commitments and closer to the truth. It was a new rhetoric stemming from a romantic paradigm, but one that would be dissolved by the cultural changes of the final decades of the 19th century.
Almeida Garrett is considered the great Portuguese poet, writer, parliamentary performer and romantic intellectual of the first half of the 19th century. His reputation as a tribune and political persona are inseparable from a long training made in theatre and playwriting, journalism and literature. From 1836 onwards, Garrett never forgot his parliamentary career and his proximity to power networks. He was several times re-elected and, at the end of his life, ascended to the House of Peers. He worked in government commissions and became a minister himself. However, his life as a politician and MP has never been the subject of a systematic study, even considering the monumental biography of Francisco Gomes de Amorim (1881-1884) or some works about the 1820’s. This dissertation aims to analyse the Almeida Garrett’s performance and ideas as a politician and parliamentary persona and to place them in the intellectual and political context of his time. We will do a close reading of his literary works, correspondence, participation in theatre and journalism, and his many interventions and speeches in Cortes. We will also discuss his hagiographical narratives, and the rumours and character attacks that followed his flamboyant personality. The poet was a public voice, but a voice that aspired to belong to a higher level, above passions, free from commitments and closer to the truth. It was a new rhetoric stemming from a romantic paradigm, but one that would be dissolved by the cultural changes of the final decades of the 19th century.
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Almeida Garrett Liberalismo Romantismo Parlamento Intelectuais Liberalism Romanticism Parliament Intellectuals