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European modernity and the passionate south : gender and nation in Spain and Italy in the long nineteenth century by Andreu-Miralles, Xavier (author);Bolufer-Peruga, Mónica (author) is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.

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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 I

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Author

Andreu-Miralles, Xavier (author);Bolufer-Peruga, Mónica (author)

Publisher

Koninklijke Brill N.V.

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9789004527218

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-25