THROUGH THE KEYHOLE: authors and works of the Luso-Brazilian pornographic literature

The present article aims to recover type of writing silenced by the history of literature, the "romance for men", and some authors who circulated pornographic works in books and newspapers in Brazil in the Eighteenth Century, besides recognizing, in the heteroclite construction of this book scenario, in the nineteenth century, the plurality of literary productions and the diversity of reading practices. This literature was best-seller such that many other printers / booksellers ventured into this era that uncovered the most intimate desires of Brazilian readers of the late nineteenth century. To this purpose, we will rely on the theoretical postulates of Cultural History and on the researches in primary texts that contribute to the construction of the representation of a reading community of the late nineteenth century. Thus, we can contribute to the construction of the history of literature and rescue the senses of the terms used for pornographic novels, in addition to indicate some books of this genre, which circulated in Brazil in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century.