European Modernity and the Passionate South: Gender and Nation in Spain and Italy in the Long Nineteenth Century

Author:   Xavier Andreu-Miralles ,  Mónica Bolufer-Peruga
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   32
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9789004527218


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   22 December 2022
Format:   Hardback
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European Modernity and the Passionate South: Gender and Nation in Spain and Italy in the Long Nineteenth Century


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In the long nineteenth century, dominant stereotypes presented people of the Mediterranean South as particularly passionate and unruly, therefore incapable of adapting to the moral and political duties imposed by European civilization and modernity. This book studies, for the first time in comparative perspective, the gender dimension of a process that legitimised internal hierarchies between North and South in the continent. It also analyses how this phenomenon was responded to from Spain and Italy, pointing to the similarities and differences between both countries. Drawing on travel narratives, satires, philosophical works, novels, plays, operas, and paintings, it shows how this transnational process affected, in changing historical contexts, the ways in which nation, gender, and modernity were imagined and mutually articulated.

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Author:   Xavier Andreu-Miralles ,  Mónica Bolufer-Peruga
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   32
Weight:   0.597kg
ISBN:  

9789004527218


ISBN 10:   9004527214
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   22 December 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Introduction  Xavier Andreu and Mónica Bolufer 1 Gallantry and Sociability in the South of Europe: Shifting Gender Relationships and Representations  Mónica Bolufer 2 On the Spanish National Character: Gender and Modernity in Joseph de La Porte’s Le Voyageur françois (1772)  Ester García-Moscardó 3 More Than One Modernity. North and South America in Enlightenment Debates on Empire, Gender and Nation  Nuria Soriano 4 Nations, Sexuality, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century National Narratives  Alberto M. Banti 5 Honour and Violence: Mediterranean Exoticism and Masculinity  Joep Leerssen 6 Meridian Ambivalences: Gendering the South in the Writings of the Coppet Group  Diego Saglia 7 Peoples of Bandits. Romantic Liberalism and National Virilities in Italy and Spain  Xavier Andreu 8 The Moral and Civil Leadership of Italian Women. Female Models between Italy and Europe in the Era of the Risorgimento  Maria Pia Casalena 9 Men, Women, and a Virtuous Nation. Spanish Radical Novels of the Mid-Nineteenth Century  Florencia Peyrou 10 Northerness in the South. Basque Stereotype and Gender  Coro Rubio Pobes 11 A Growing Distrust of Southern Italy. Images and Theories about National Backwardness in Liberal Italy, 1876–1914  Antonino De Francesco 12 Love, Gender and Class in the Nationalist Project of Emilia Pardo Bazán: An Unsentimental Story  Isabel Burdiel 13 When the Empire Is in the South. Gendered Spanish Imperialism in Morocco at the End of the 19th Century  Ferran Archilés Index

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Xavier Andreu, Associate Professor at the University of Valencia, specializes in the cultural history of Spanish 19th-century nationalism, gender, and political history. He is the author of El descubrimiento de España. Mito romántico e identidad nacional (2016). Mónica Bolufer, Professor of Modern History at the University of Valencia, specializes in women’s writing, gender, politeness, sensibility and the self, and travel narratives in the eighteenth century. She recently coedited The Routledge Companion to the Hispanic Enlightenment (2020, with Elizabeth Lewis and Catherine Jaffe).

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