Uma seleção inglesa: tradução e crítica de ensaios escritos na Inglaterra entre os séculos XVIII e XIX.

Abstract

This thesis is divided into two main content blocks. On the beginning of the first one, with observations on Montaigne works, some general characteristics of the essay are analyzed, concerning form and content. Then Montaigne is contrasted to English essays written in further centuries. On the same block, it is also shown the results of a brief statistic research on the availability of English essays in Brazilian publications; and it is also explained the theoretical and practical criteria used on the selection, translation and reviewing of the essays presented on the second content block. In this part, are presented essays written by the following writers: Samuel Johnson, William Cowper, Oliver Goldsmith, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Lamb, Charles Colton, Leigh Hunt, William Hazlitt, Thomas Macaulay, Thomas de Quincey and Harriet Martineau.