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The Empire of Stereotypes

Part of the Italian and Italian American Studies Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781403983213

ISBN: 978-1-349-53368-8

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Nov 14, 2015

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Decline and Discovery

Casillo, Robert

Pages: 1 –44

[Celebrated as a spellbinding conversationalist, political and social commentator, novelist, and free spirit, Germaine de Staël wrote in French but was born to Swiss Calvinist parents in 1766. Her mother was Suzanne Curchod Necker, who by all accounts was beautiful, conscientious, and highly...
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The Debate over Italy

Casillo, Robert

Pages: 45 –82

[The Italy of Corinne is in many ways a personal utopia satisfying Staël’s desire for a passionate and self-expressive existence beyond the constraints of the bourgeois North.Madelyn Gutwirth describes it as a “place beyond time,” a haven of leisure, innocence, and freedom.1 According to Maura...
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The Empire of Stereotypes

Casillo, Robert

Pages: 83 –143

[To call Italy the empire of stereotypes is no exaggeration, as there is no European country that has been written about so extensively over so long and continuous a period, and around which such a wealth of clichés and commonplaces, often contradictory and hyperbolic, have come to accumulate....
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Italy as Other: The Carnival and the Swamp

Casillo, Robert

Pages: 145 –180

[Corinne’s and Oswald’s hopes for unity founder. He rejoins his regiment, rejects and abandons Corinne, and marries her English half-sister Lucile, whereupon Corinne’s personality disintegrates. Her talents having failed her, she dies from grief. Most obviously, Oswald rejects Corinne out of...
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Children of Vulcan

Casillo, Robert

Pages: 181 –232

[A sign of their unwillingness to content themselves with the pleasures and lessons of Rome as the traditional culmination of the Grand Tour,Corinne and Oswald’s visit to Naples reflects a modification in that cultural itinerary that had first become apparent during the mid-eighteenth century. As...

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