Esclarecimento crítico, reconciliação e tolerância nas cartas literárias de Júlio Dinis

The publication of letters in the 19th century daily newspapers stimulated authors and the readership in general. This kind of literature brought to the readers the possibility of discussing and reflecting about different topics, and one of the well-known Portuguese letter-writers was the doctor and fiction-writer Júlio Dinis. Collected in Inéditos e Esparsos, his literary letters offer a charming and ironic challenge to the reader’s judgement, often mixed by some philosophical considerations. Every subject bring into focus problems of gender, diverse manners in city or field, geographical descriptions and the corresponding influence in moods, reaching some letters to point out several guidelines of the emerging Science. Signed by the female name Diana de Aveleda, in these letters we find a great concern about psychological behaviours and the accuracy and coldness of social structure