O romantismo literário brasileiro conseguiu fabricar um modelo de índio civilizado despido de suas características reais, mas quase nada falou sobre as populações africanas, houve um longo silêncio sobre as etnias negras que povoavam o Brasil\" (ORTIZ, 2003: 19). Por isso, optamos por estudar analiticamente a obra Primeiras trovas burlescas de Getulino, do ex-escravo, escritor, abolicionista, jornalista e advogado Luiz Gama, levando em conta como o eu-lírico qualifica o negro, o mestiço, o mulato e o branco por meio de características ou de ações, e quais são os valores a atribuídos a esses grupos étnicos. Análise que nos lembra a importância da relação entre a mensagem e a imagem que se produz literariamente, já as qualificações (atributos e valores) apresentadas vêm ligadas à uma série de fatores dotados de significados próprio originando uma valorização humanitária peculiar, que leva em conta certas pretensões que podem ser sociais e históricas e desvelam acontecimentos e motivações que vão ao encontro de concepções que geram o que cita David Haberly: \"The multiracial character of Brazilian literary history, however, goes far beyond genetics. As we shall see, much of Brazil\'s literature has been preoccupied with an anguished search for a viable racial identity - a search that has been both personal and national in scope.\" (HABERLY, 1983: 2) / Literary Romanticism Brazilian managed to make a model of civilized Indian stripped of their actual characteristics. On the other hand, said nothing about the African population, there was a long silence on the ethnic black that filled the Brazil \"(Ortiz, 2003: 19), so we chose to study analytically the work Primeiras trovas burlescas de Getulino, of the former slave, writer abolitionist, journalist and lawyer Luiz Gama, taking into account how the I-lyric describes the black, mestizo and mulatto through features or activities, and what are the values assigned to them. Analysis reminds us of the importance of the relationship between the message and the image is produced literally, as the skills (attributes and values) presented are linked to a number of factors endowed with meaning itself leading to a recovery humanitarian peculiar, which takes into account certain claims which may be social, historical and uncover the events and motivations that are in harmony with concepts that generate citing David Haberly: \"The multiracial character of Brazilian literary history, however, goes far beyond genetics. As we shall see, much of Brazil\'s literature has been preoccupied with an anguished search for a viable racial identity - a search that has been both personal and national in scope. \"(Haberly, 1983: 2)

O romantismo literário brasileiro conseguiu fabricar um modelo de índio civilizado despido de suas características reais, mas quase nada falou sobre as populações africanas, houve um longo silêncio sobre as etnias negras que povoavam o Brasil\" (ORTIZ, 2003: 19). Por isso, optamos por estudar analiticamente a obra Primeiras trovas burlescas de Getulino, do ex-escravo, escritor, abolicionista, jornalista e advogado Luiz Gama, levando em conta como o eu-lírico qualifica o negro, o mestiço, o mulato e o branco por meio de características ou de ações, e quais são os valores a atribuídos a esses grupos étnicos. Análise que nos lembra a importância da relação entre a mensagem e a imagem que se produz literariamente, já as qualificações (atributos e valores) apresentadas vêm ligadas à uma série de fatores dotados de significados próprio originando uma valorização humanitária peculiar, que leva em conta certas pretensões que podem ser sociais e históricas e desvelam acontecimentos e motivações que vão ao encontro de concepções que geram o que cita David Haberly: \"The multiracial character of Brazilian literary history, however, goes far beyond genetics. As we shall see, much of Brazil\'s literature has been preoccupied with an anguished search for a viable racial identity - a search that has been both personal and national in scope.\" (HABERLY, 1983: 2) / Literary Romanticism Brazilian managed to make a model of civilized Indian stripped of their actual characteristics. On the other hand, said nothing about the African population, there was a long silence on the ethnic black that filled the Brazil \"(Ortiz, 2003: 19), so we chose to study analytically the work Primeiras trovas burlescas de Getulino, of the former slave, writer abolitionist, journalist and lawyer Luiz Gama, taking into account how the I-lyric describes the black, mestizo and mulatto through features or activities, and what are the values assigned to them. Analysis reminds us of the importance of the relationship between the message and the image is produced literally, as the skills (attributes and values) presented are linked to a number of factors endowed with meaning itself leading to a recovery humanitarian peculiar, which takes into account certain claims which may be social, historical and uncover the events and motivations that are in harmony with concepts that generate citing David Haberly: \"The multiracial character of Brazilian literary history, however, goes far beyond genetics. As we shall see, much of Brazil\'s literature has been preoccupied with an anguished search for a viable racial identity - a search that has been both personal and national in scope. \"(Haberly, 1983: 2)

During the eighteenth century, the dominant rhetorical and explanatory power of civic humanism was gradually challenged by the rise of a new organising language in political economy. Political economic thought permitted radically different descriptions of what laudable private and public behaviour might be: it proposed that self-interest was often more beneficial to society at large than public-mindedness; that luxury had its uses and might not be a threat to liberty and political integrity; that landownership was no particular guarantee of virtue or disinterest; and that there was nothing inherently superior about frugality and self-sufficiency. These new ideas about civil society formed the intellectual basis of a large body of verse written during the long eighteenth century (at mid-century in particular), in which poets engaged enthusiastically with political economic arguments and defences of commercial activity, and celebrated the wealth and plenty of Britain as a modern trading nation. The work of my thesis is to examine a contradiction in the way in which these political economic ideas were handled. Forward-looking and confident poetry on public themes did not develop pioneering forms to suit the modernity of its outlook: instead, poets articulated such themes in verse by appropriating and reframing traditional genres, which in some cases involved engaging with inherited moral values and philosophical preferences entirely at odds with the intellectual material in hand. This inventive kind of generic revision is the central interest of the thesis. It aims to describe a number of problematic meeting points between new political economic thought and handed-down poetic formulae, and it will focus attention on some of the ways in which poets manipulated the forms and tropes they inherited in order to manage – and make the most of – the resulting contradictions.