This book places Germaine de Stael's influential novel, Corrine, or Italy (1807) in relation to preceding and subsequent stereotypes of Italy as seen in the works of Northern European and American travel writers since the Renaissance.

Autorentext
ROBERT CASILLO is Professor of English, University of Miami, USA,

Inhalt
Decline and Discovery The Debate over Italy The Empire of Stereotypes Italy as Other: The Carnival and the Swamp Children of Vulcan