Space, Mobility, and the Novel: “The Spirit of Place is a Great Reality”

McDonagh, Josephine

doi:10.1002/9780470692035.ch3

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“…Eça is the best-known Portuguese realist writer (Colemen, 1980;Cidade, 2004) and Dinis offered a seminal contribution to Portuguese realism 664 AAAJ 32,2 (Dâmaso, 1883(Dâmaso, , 1884Ribeiro, 1994;Saraiva, 1996) with An English Family (Saraiva, 1996). Most of works of these authors contributed to modern realism, which emerged during the mid-nineteenth century (Morris, 2003;Hill, 2009;McDonagh, 2010), under the premise "that truth can be discovered by the individual through his senses" (Watt, 1957, p. 12). The observation and analysis of contemporary life assumes a critical role in this literary stream ( Jesus, 1997), which has been conceptually associated with positivism (e.g.…”

Section: Nineteenth Century Portuguese Contextmentioning

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The portrayal of early accountants in nineteenth century Portuguese literature

Leão¹,

Gomes

Carnegie

2019

AAAJ

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the portrayal of early accountants in the unfamiliar site of Portugal by examining Portuguese-language realist literature from the second half of the nineteenth century. Design/methodology/approach Two popular literary works – Uma Família Inglesa (An English Family), written by Júlio Dinis and published in 1867, and Singularidades de uma Rapariga Loura (The Idiosyncrasies of a Young Blonde Woman), written by Eça de Queirós and published in 1873 – were examined through a qualitative content analysis. Findings The dimensions of the accounting stereotype discerned for the two early accounting practitioners featured in these works are portrayed as: modest; on-the-job trained practitioner; uncreative, conservative and unenergetic; honest financial manager; servant of the capitalist (i.e. merchant), and warm and sentimental. The accountant stereotype depicted from 1860s to 1870s period is similar to the conventional accountant stereotype, identified as the “traditional accountant” stereotype. Variations from this stereotype, however, are identified in the local, time-specific settings of Lisbon and Oporto. Originality/value The study’s portrayal of early accounting practitioners occurs during a period of transformation marked by liberalism. It augments an understanding of the image of early accounting practitioners, reflecting their social positioning at a time of significant social, economic, political and cultural changes, thereby contributing to an appreciation of the historical legacy of the accountant stereotype in continental Europe. Importantly, a taxonomy is proposed for content analysis that can be used and developed by future researchers.

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Section: Nineteenth Century Portuguese Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

The portrayal of early accountants in nineteenth century Portuguese literature

Leão¹,

Gomes

Carnegie

2019

AAAJ

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Imagining Locality and Affiliation: George Eliot's Villages

McDonagh

2013

A Companion to George Eliot

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Between Elysium and Inferno: the rhetoric of ambivalence in Oscar Wilde's and Rudyard Kipling's writings about America

Pochmara

2015

Journal of Transatlantic Studies

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The article analyses the representation of the USA in the texts of two renowned fin-de-siècle British writers, who travelled across the North American continent in the 1880s: Oscar Wilde and Rudyard Kipling. The analysis demonstrates that at the end of the nineteenth century, British attitude to American culture shifts from imperial condescension to anxiety over the rising cultural empire. Despite this similarity, the texts quite differently depict or approach the same American places and the same issues. An intertextual reading shows how these differing representations are intertwined with three powerful ideologies: Orientalism, Occidentalism and the American myth of the frontier, and hence, suggests that travel writing has not been innocent and direct but inescapably discursive already in the nineteenth century.

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Space, Mobility, and the Novel: “The Spirit of Place is a Great Reality”

Cited by 15 publications

References 6 publications

The portrayal of early accountants in nineteenth century Portuguese literature

The portrayal of early accountants in nineteenth century Portuguese literature

Imagining Locality and Affiliation: George Eliot's Villages

Between Elysium and Inferno: the rhetoric of ambivalence in Oscar Wilde's and Rudyard Kipling's writings about America

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