“…Europa Kulturelle Identität Geschichte Kongress Coppet <2005>…”

“…De 1803 à 1812, l’auteure de Delphine et Corinne ou l’Italie fut bannie, confinée à quarante lieues de Paris puis condamnée à ne plus quitter son château de Coppet en Suisse. Tout avait pourtant bien commencé et la jeune femme n’avait pas ménagé ses efforts pour séduire le Héros d’Italie. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…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…”