Viviane Carvalho da Annunciação is a Teaching and Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, specialising in Lusophone studies with an interest in nineteenth-century Brazil and Machado de Assis.

• INTRODUCTIONChapter 1: THE QUIXOTIC SCIENCE: REGRESSIVE PROGRESSChapter 2: SOCIAL LABORATORIES: COLONIAL EXPERIMENTSChapter 3: FAMILIAR THEORIES: EXOTIC LANDSChapter 4: SOCIAL MEDICINE: STRANGE DISEASESCONCLUSION: PLUS ULTRABIBLIOGRAPHY

“The examinations delve deeply into the texts and provide original insights. I think of myself as an expert on Machado’s shorter fiction, and confess that I found many valid points that I had not considered before.” – Professor Paul Dixon, College of Liberal Arts, Purdue University

Viviane Carvalho da Annunciação is a Teaching and Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, specialising in Lusophone studies with an interest in nineteenth-century Brazil and Machado de Assis.

• INTRODUCTIONChapter 1: THE QUIXOTIC SCIENCE: REGRESSIVE PROGRESSChapter 2: SOCIAL LABORATORIES: COLONIAL EXPERIMENTSChapter 3: FAMILIAR THEORIES: EXOTIC LANDSChapter 4: SOCIAL MEDICINE: STRANGE DISEASESCONCLUSION: PLUS ULTRABIBLIOGRAPHY

“The examinations delve deeply into the texts and provide original insights. I think of myself as an expert on Machado’s shorter fiction, and confess that I found many valid points that I had not considered before.” – Professor Paul Dixon, College of Liberal Arts, Purdue University

Viviane Carvalho da Annunciação is a Teaching and Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, specialising in Lusophone studies with an interest in nineteenth-century Brazil and Machado de Assis.

• INTRODUCTIONChapter 1: THE QUIXOTIC SCIENCE: REGRESSIVE PROGRESSChapter 2: SOCIAL LABORATORIES: COLONIAL EXPERIMENTSChapter 3: FAMILIAR THEORIES: EXOTIC LANDSChapter 4: SOCIAL MEDICINE: STRANGE DISEASESCONCLUSION: PLUS ULTRABIBLIOGRAPHY

“The examinations delve deeply into the texts and provide original insights. I think of myself as an expert on Machado’s shorter fiction, and confess that I found many valid points that I had not considered before.” – Professor Paul Dixon, College of Liberal Arts, Purdue University