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European modernity and the passionate south : gender and nation in Spain and Italy in the long nineteenth century

Title
European modernity and the passionate south : gender and nation in Spain and Italy in the long nineteenth century / edited by Xavier Andreu and Mónica Bolufer.
Publication
  • Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]
  • ©2023

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Additional Authors
  • Andreu Miralles, Xavier
  • Bolufer Peruga, Mónica
Description
x, 271 pages : color illustrations; 25 cm.
Summary
"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"--
Series Statement
Studia imagologica, 0927-4065 ; volume 32
Uniform Title
Studia imagologica ; v. 32.
Subject
  • 1800-1899
  • Stereotypes (Social psychology) > Europe > History > 19th century
  • National characteristics, Spanish
  • National characteristics, Italian
  • Sex role > Mediterranean Region
  • Europeans > Attitudes > History
  • National characteristics in literature > Cross-cultural studies
  • Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature > Cross-cultural studies
  • Civilization
  • Europeans > Attitudes
  • National characteristics in literature
  • Sex role
  • Stereotypes (Social psychology)
  • Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature
  • Europeans
  • Europe, Southern > Civilization > 19th century
  • Europe
  • Mediterranean Region
  • Southern Europe
Genre/Form
  • Cross-cultural studies.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Call Number
JFE 23-2375
ISBN
  • 9789004527218
  • 9004527214
LCCN
2022043632
OCLC
1345518528
Title
European modernity and the passionate south : gender and nation in Spain and Italy in the long nineteenth century / edited by Xavier Andreu and Mónica Bolufer.
Publisher
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]
Copyright Date
©2023
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Studia imagologica, 0927-4065 ; volume 32
Studia imagologica ; v. 32.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
1800-1899
Added Author
Andreu Miralles, Xavier, editor.
Bolufer Peruga, Mónica, editor.
Other Form:
Online version : European modernity and the passionate south Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023] 9789004527225 (DLC) 2022043633
Research Call Number
JFE 23-2375
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