“Somos os filhos da revolução”: os Villela Tavares e as ideias políticas em Pernambuco no século XIX

Abstract

This thesis aims to understand languages within their social and political context in the 19th century, especially in Pernambuco. It also analyzes the networks, power relations, political discourse and intellectual production of these bachelors. For this investigation, we sought to analyze the work of two legal and political actors who were very prominent in Pernambuco's public arena during the Regency Period and the Second Reign: Jerônimo Villela de Castro Tavares (1815-1869) and Joaquim Villela Tavares (1816-1858). Graduates of the first classes of the Olinda Legal Course, they were involved in the events of the province and also in the political discussions in the General Assembly and were also professors at the aforementioned educational institution. Based on these characters, we will relate the Brazilian norms of the 19th century and their tension with the monarchical system, such as the weakening of absolutism and the transformations of liberalism; Analyze the legal culture of the 19th century, correlating it with the speeches of the bachelors and their behavior towards other social groups; Investigate the role of the Vilella Tavares brothers in the Praieira Insurrection and their positions within the conservative and liberal parties; and analyze the intellectual production of the Vilella Tavares through their works, writings and as professors at the Olinda Law School. The thesis begins with the Pernambuco Revolution of 1817 and ends with the death of Jerônimo Villela de Castro Tavares in 1869. The theoretical inspiration for the work lies in the reflections developed by John Pocock on the examination of political texts produced in other eras. To reach our conclusions, we used documents from the Recife Law School Archive, the Recife Public Archive, the archives found on the websites of the Chamber of Deputies and the Brazilian Federal Senate, where the Annals of the Brazilian Parliament were analyzed, the Digital Library of the National Library, and its various periodicals and documents from the 19th century.