Erotismo e política: em torno de algumas figurações femininas na transição do romantismo ao realismo poético

Abstract

The present essay intends to examine certain representations of the woman and sex that surface among the later Romantics and that incarnate in the “early Baudelairians” in Brazil, in a concurrence of extreme eroticism (with perverse notations of loving sadism and cannibalism) and political allegory, as long as they may take the love act as a synthesis of liberal and republican ideals.