The Empire of Stereotypes

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.

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

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