European Modernity and the Passionate South : : Gender and Nation in Spain and Italy in the Long Nineteenth Century / / Xavier Andreu-Miralles and Mónica Bolufer-Peruga.

• Superior document: Studia Imagologica Series ; Volume 32
• VerfasserIn: Andreu Miralles, Xavier,; Bolufer Peruga, Mónica,
• TeilnehmendeR: Bolufer Peruga, Mónica,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Studia imagologica ; Volume 32.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (0 pages)

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 1 Gallantry and Sociability in the South of Europe -- 1 Parallel Figures -- 2 An Exchange of Gazes -- 3 Inadequate or Excessive Masculinity, Dissolute Femininity -- 4 Gallantry in the Mirror of Time -- 5 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 2 On the Spanish National Character: Gender and Modernity -- 1 The Baggage of a French Traveller in Spain -- 2 Separated by Two Centuries from France: La Porte's Spaniards -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 3 More Than One Modernity: North and South America -- 1 America's Part in the Construction of Hispanic Modernity -- 2 Pedro de Estala and El Viajero universal -- 2.1 The Image of Spain's Empire and National Character -- 2.2 The Climatology Issue and the Dimension of Gender -- 3 Conclusion: A Cliché-Ridden Cultural Geography -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 4 Nations, Sexuality, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century National Narratives -- 1 Nationalisms Present and Past -- 2 Inter-ethnic Rape in the Narratives of Romantic Nationalism -- 3 Visual Allegories and Representations -- 4 Intertextual Relationships -- 5 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 5 Honour and Violence: Mediterranean Exoticism and Masculinity -- 1 Exoticism and Vraisemblance -- 2 A Trope of Otherness: The Secluded Encounter -- 3 Honour and Shame: Knowledge Production and the Literary Imagination -- 4 Realism and Romance Revisited -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 6 Meridian Ambivalences: Gendering the South in the Writings of the Coppet Group -- 1 Madame de Staël's Gendering of North and South -- 2 Sismondi, Literature and Constructing the Midi -- 3 Bonstetten and the Ambivalence of Southern Subjectivities -- Acknowledgments -- References.

7 Peoples of Bandits: Romantic Liberalism and National Virilities in Italy and Spain -- 1 Romantic Bandits and the European South -- 2 Southern Visions of Southern Banditry -- 2.1 Brigands and the Re-virilization of the Italian Nation -- 2.2 Guerrillas, Bandits and Spanish Radical Liberalism -- 3 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 8 The Moral and Civil Primacy of Italian Women: Female Models -- 1 Biographies, Gender Roles and National History in the Risorgimento -- 2 From Napoleonic Europe to the Primacy of Italy in Catholic Europe -- 3 From Italy to Europe: The Redemption of the South versus the Barbarism of the North -- 4 From the Models of the 1830s to the "Long Quarantotto of Italian Women" -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 9 Men, Women, and a Virtuous Nation: Spanish Radical Novels of the Mid-Nineteenth Century -- 1 Democratic Men -- 2 Democratic Women -- 3 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 10 Northerness in the South: Basque Stereotype and Gender -- 1 Basque Northernness -- 2 The Basque Female Stereotype: Strong and Virtuous Women -- 3 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 11 A Growing Distrust of Southern Italy: Images and Theories -- 1 Two Very Different Peoples -- 2 A View from the North -- 3 Two Italies -- 4 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 12 Love, Gender and Class in the Nationalist Project of Emilia Pardo Bazán: An Unsentimental Story -- 1 Literature, Celebrity, and Politics -- 2 The Battle for Galicia: Nation and Gender -- 3 Class and Nation: Two Love Stories -- 4 Conclusion: An Unsentimental Story -- Acknowledgment -- References -- 13 When the Empire Is in the South: Gendered Spanish Imperialism -- 1 Without Empire but with a Colonial Ambition -- 2 Nostalgy of Africa, Dreams of Empire: An Unsettling Racial Kinship and Spanish Imperialism in Morocco -- 3 Orientalism/s Back and Forth.

4 Imperial Culture and Gender in Spanish Morocco -- 5 Conclusions: Southern (dis)Comfort -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Index.