European Modernity and the Passionate South

Xavier Andreu, Associate Professor at the University of Valencia, specializes in the cultural history of Spanish 19th-century nationalism, gender, and political history. He is the author of El descubrimiento de España. Mito romántico e identidad nacional (2016). Mónica Bolufer, Professor of Modern History at the University of Valencia, specializes in women’s writing, gender, politeness, sensibility and the self, and travel narratives in the eighteenth century. She recently coedited The Routledge Companion to the Hispanic Enlightenment (2020, with Elizabeth Lewis and Catherine Jaffe).

Introduction

 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



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