Abstract
Among the travels of the Austrian writer Ida Pfeiffer (1797-1858) was a two-month-long stay in Rio de Janeiro in 1846. Her travelog (Eine Frau fährt um die Welt) on this experience, as well as the books of the same genre, contributes to the creation of the imaginary of Brazil among her European readers. But it could also be said that the book the author's imaginary of what she might encounter in Brazil, as well as those of other Europeans. This article presents the results of an analysis of the moments in the text in which these imaginaries are made evident by the author, the book being thus considered a historical source of the European imaginary about Brazil in the 19th century.
Keywords:
Travel literature; Ida Pfeiffer; The European imaginary of Brazil