O papel desempenhado pela Livraria Universal na cidade de Pelotas no período de 1887 a 1934.

Abstract

This dissertation is the result of a study aimed at identifying the role played by the Universal Bookstore concerning the sale and distribution of books in Pelotas from 1887 to 1934, period when it developed its activities in this city. In that time frame, the Universal Bookstore was a diffuser center of a modern sociocultural practice - the reading - a legitimate area of refinement and good taste, both as regards their physical structures and also provided about the materials. From contributions of Hallewell and Machado, who had discussions about the forms and means of circulation. It was also discussed concepts and theories of historians of reading, as Darnton, in relation to the communications circuit and Chartier on the representations, among the various modes of readings at different the time and space. Within the premises of the New Cultural Historythe documentary and bibliographical research had as corpus of analyzes, books and newspapers from the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, magazines and almanacs produced and sold by Universal. In order to verify which printed were sold at Universal, from the various notices of books published in the Magazine Illustrating Pelotense, we created three categories within which we fit the largest possible number of works. These categories were divided into: Regional Works, Works of Instruction and French Works. The investigation of these materials allowed concluding that the Universal Library, besides a space of refinement and good taste, both in referring to their physical structures and to the materials which were provided, was an important diffuser center of reading, since it served the population , with a wide assortment of books - among others printings- and objects.