ISBN:
9789004527218
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 271 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Studia imagologica volume 32
Series Statement:
Studia imagologica
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als European modernity and the passionate south
DDC:
305.309409/034
Keywords:
Stereotypes (Social psychology) History 19th century
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National characteristics, Spanish
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National characteristics, Italian
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Sex role
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Europeans Attitudes
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History
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National characteristics in literature Cross-cultural studies
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Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature Cross-cultural studies
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Europe, Southern Civilization 19th century
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Spanien
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Italien
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Moderne
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Geschlechterrolle
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Geschlechterverhältnis
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Geschlechterstereotyp
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Geschichte 1772-1914
Abstract:
"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"--
Note:
Includes index
DOI:
10.1163/9789004527225
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