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Book SynopsisIn 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.
Table of ContentsIntroduction 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
