Tradução em debate: disputas pela história literária de Portugal entre Robert Southey e João Guilherme Cristiano Müller

This article presents the disputes over Portuguese literary history between two men of letters, Robert Southey and João Guilherme Cristiano Müller. These disputes concern the translation of “Extratos em português e em inglês, com as palavras propriamente acentuadas para facilitar o estudo daquela lingual”, originally published by Southey in the magazine Quartely Review, in 1809. João Guilherme Cristiano Müller translated the text into Portuguese in 1810, under the title of Memória sobre a literatura portuguesa. Based on the analyses of the discursive context of both texts in their respective versions in English and Portuguese, I explore the semantic horizon of the Portuguese literary history and political, historiographical and literary disputes between these men of letters who face the common challenge of acceleration of historical time and crisis of representation during the Napoleonic wars. keywords: History of historiography; History of Portugal; translation.