%0 Journal Article %T Nos caminhos da pena de um romancista do s¨¦culo XIX: o Rio de Janeiro de Diva, Luc¨ªola e Senhora %A Soares %A Ana Carolina Eiras Coelho %J Revista Brasileira de Hist¨®ria %D 2010 %I Associa??o Nacional de Hist¨®ria - ANPUH %R 10.1590/S0102-01882010000200011 %X this article seeks to understand the relations between urban spaces in nineteenth century rio de janeiro and the gender relations expressed in jos¨¦ de alencar's narrative in his urban feminine novels: diva, luc¨ªola and senhora. changes in the capital of the empire in the nineteenth century provoked new expectations about the normatization of circulation expressed in these novels. jos¨¦ de alencar was a novelist, playwright, chronicler, parliamentarian and statesman of the brazilian empire. in all these activities the political dimension, understood as the space for the articulation of the social and its representation, was strongly present. %K jos¨¦ de alencar %K urban novels %K rio de janeiro. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0102-01882010000200011&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en