Semeando os alicerces da nação: História, nacionalidade e cultura nas páginas da revista Niterói Sowing the grounds of the nation: History, nationality and culture on the pages of the Niterói review

Redigida por estudantes brasileiros residentes em Paris - Domingos José Gonçalves de Magalhães, Manuel Araújo Porto Alegre e Francisco Sales Torres Homem -, a revista Niterói (1836) manifestava o propósito das revistas literárias do século XIX de fomentar o amor à literatura, às artes e às ciências, e se nutriu do contato dos seus redatores com a intelectualidade francesa e com as novas ideias filosóficas que triunfaram no período. Com base nas memórias apresentadas nas sessões do Institut Historique de Paris, na correspondência dos autores e nos artigos da revista Niterói, buscamos reconstituir a proposta de afirmação da nacionalidade realizada através dos preceitos do historicismo, demonstrando que as artes e a literatura eram entendidas como alicerces sobre os quais a nação deveria se edificar para concretizar sua independência.<br>The Niterói (1836), a review published by young Brazilian students living in Paris - Domingos José Gonçalves de Magalhães, Manuel Araújo Porto Alegre, and Francisco Sales Torres Homem -, expressed the inclination of major literary reviews in the 19th century, which was to stimulate enthusiasm for literature, arts and sciences. It profited from the contact established between its editors and French intellectuals, as much as from philosophical ideas that triumphed at the time. By analyzing memoirs, letters and essays published at the Niterói, we wished to recognize the proposition of its publishers of confirming nationality through the precept of historicism. It shows that arts and literature were perceived as grounds upon which the nation should be built in order to accomplish its independence.

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