Invitation to read the dossier: Scandals, Lies, and Crimes: The Place of Commotion in the Periodical Press

Dear Readers,

 

We are delighted to announce that the dossier 'Scandals, Lies, and Crimes: The Place of Commotion in the Periodical Press' now has all of its texts available in the 2025 volume of the Revista Almanack.

 

The following articles are now available:

 

Godoi, Rodrigo Camargo de - The types, the ink and toga: legal debates on freedom of the press in the Brazilian Empire

 

Souza Júnior, Paulo Montini de Assis - On the stage of History, the general of the masses: the construction of an insult amidst political intrigues, leaked correspondence, and the scandal of a restorationist uprising in 1834

 

Guimarães, Valéria dos Santos - The Fear of the Dead and the Living - Press, Race, and Sensationalism in prodigy faits divers (in Brazil), 19th and 20th centuries

 

Lima, Amanda Ribeiro Mafra - Brave Heroines and dead Companions: Women and Crime in Carmen Dolores’ Weekly Chronicles (O Paiz, Rio de Janeiro, 1905)

 

Camilotti, Virgínia - A Pátria - Controversy as the Dynamis of a Campaign for "Latin Fraternity" and Rapprochement between Portugal and Brazil

 

Ferreira, João Pedro Rosa - José Agostinho de Macedo: The Throne, the Altar, and the Scandals

 

Vaz, Cecília - "After the Violent assault, whose details we Omit": Portuguese Translations of the serial novel Confessions d’un bohême, by Xavier de Montépin

 

Sardica, José Miguel - Sensationalism, Political Criticism, and Character Assassination: The Portuguese Press before the Government of João Franco and the Monarchy of D. Carlos I (1906-1908)

 

Porto, Ana Gomes - The Maués trial and Criminal Investigation: Commotion and Crime in Printed Pages in the Amazon at the end of the 19th-Century

 

The introductory article for the Dossier Scandals, Lies, and Crimes: The Place of Commotion in the Periodical Press, authored by Isabel Lustosa, is also now available.