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Record Nr.

UNINA9910311935503321

Autore

Dainotto Roberto M (Roberto Maria), <1962->

Titolo

Europe (in theory) / / Roberto M. Dainotto

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2007

ISBN

9786613023094

9781283023092

1283023091

9780822389620

0822389622

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 p.)

Classificazione

LIT006000

Disciplina

940

Soggetti

National characteristics, European

Europe Civilization

Europe Intellectual life 18th century

Europe Intellectual life 19th century

Europe Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-265) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : a pigs eye view of Europe -- The discovery of Europe : some critical points -- Montesquieu's north and south : history as a theory of Europe -- Republics of letters : what is European literature? -- Mme de Stael to Hegel : the end of French Europe -- Orientalism, Mediterranean style : the limits of history at the margins of Europe.

Sommario/riassunto

A postcolonial study of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century theorizations that have informed the dominant idea of Europe, a concept that has marginalized the southern "other" within it's own borders.