European Modernity and the Passionate South Gender and Nation in Spain and Italy in the Long Nineteenth Century
Andreu-Miralles, Xavier
European Modernity and the Passionate South Gender and Nation in Spain and Italy in the Long Nineteenth Century - Brill 2022 - 1 online resource
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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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English
9789004527218 9789004527225 9789004527225
10.1163/9789004527225 doi
Italy
Literature: history & criticism
Spain
"Other" centre Enlightenment European identity femininities imagology liberalism masculinities nation national identity national literatures national stereotypes North and South peripheries Risorgimento Romanticism
European Modernity and the Passionate South Gender and Nation in Spain and Italy in the Long Nineteenth Century - Brill 2022 - 1 online resource
Open Access
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.
Creative Commons
English
9789004527218 9789004527225 9789004527225
10.1163/9789004527225 doi
Italy
Literature: history & criticism
Spain
"Other" centre Enlightenment European identity femininities imagology liberalism masculinities nation national identity national literatures national stereotypes North and South peripheries Risorgimento Romanticism