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).

• IntroductionXavier Andreu and Mónica Bolufer1 Gallantry and Sociability in the South of Europe: Shifting Gender Relationships and RepresentationsMónica Bolufer2 On the Spanish National Character: Gender and Modernity in Joseph de La Porte’s Le Voyageur françois (1772)Ester García-Moscardó3 More Than One Modernity. North and South America in Enlightenment Debates on Empire, Gender and NationNuria Soriano4 Nations, Sexuality, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century National NarrativesAlberto M. Banti5 Honour and Violence: Mediterranean Exoticism and MasculinityJoep Leerssen6 Meridian Ambivalences: Gendering the South in the Writings of the Coppet GroupDiego Saglia7 Peoples of Bandits. Romantic Liberalism and National Virilities in Italy and SpainXavier Andreu8 The Moral and Civil Leadership of Italian Women. Female Models between Italy and Europe in the Era of the RisorgimentoMaria Pia Casalena9 Men, Women, and a Virtuous Nation. Spanish Radical Novels of the Mid-Nineteenth CenturyFlorencia Peyrou10 Northerness in the South. Basque Stereotype and GenderCoro Rubio Pobes11 A Growing Distrust of Southern Italy. Images and Theories about National Backwardness in Liberal Italy, 1876–1914Antonino De Francesco12 Love, Gender and Class in the Nationalist Project of Emilia Pardo Bazán: An Unsentimental StoryIsabel Burdiel13 When the Empire Is in the South. Gendered Spanish Imperialism in Morocco at the End of the 19th CenturyFerran ArchilésIndex