Telegraphy and the modernization of the press in Machado de Assis's chronicles
The article analyses Machado de Assis’s (1839-1908) critical view on telegraphy and his resistance to the emergence of telegraphic information as a new paradigm for journalistic discourse. In 1875, only a year after the inauguration of the transatlantic submarine cable, the Havas-Reuter news agency...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2014 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) |
| Repositorio: | Revista FAMECOS: Mídia cultura e tecnologia |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/14249 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/revistafamecos/article/view/14249 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Machado de Assis Chronicles Telegraphy 19th century Literature and Technology Crónicas Telegrafía Siglo XIX Literatura e Tecnología Crónica Crônicas Telegrafia Século XIX Literatura e Tecnologia. Crônica |
| Resumo: | The article analyses Machado de Assis’s (1839-1908) critical view on telegraphy and his resistance to the emergence of telegraphic information as a new paradigm for journalistic discourse. In 1875, only a year after the inauguration of the transatlantic submarine cable, the Havas-Reuter news agency opened its offices in Brazil, both events signaling the moment of Brazil’s incorporation in the global networks of telegraphic communication. Machado de Assis’s chronicles, published in the 1870s-1890s, show that the technological modernization of the press was controversial, threatening to destabilize the close ties between literature and journalism. Machado’s ironic invectives against the Havas agency reveal his commitment to the politics of the local press, in opposition to the accelerated internationalization of the news market in the second half of the 19th century. |
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