Tili Boon Cuillé, Karyna Szmurlo

Stael's Philosophy of the Passions

Sensibility, Society and the Sister Arts

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines the philosophical, political, and personal convictions that informed Staël's theory of the passions and the social and aesthetic innovations to which it gave rise. Moving from her affective theory to her literary practice, we explore Staël's transformative influence on the communities of women artists she fostered.

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Produktdetails

• Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 732g
• ISBN-13: 9781611484724
• ISBN-10: 1611484723
• Artikelnr.: 36601483

Autorenporträt

Tili Boon Cuillé is associate professor of French at Washington University in St. Louis and specializes in eighteenth-century French literature, philosophy, and aesthetics. She is the author of Narrative Interludes: Musical Tableaux in Eighteenth-Century French Texts (Toronto University Press, 2006) as well as of several articles on opera, painting, and the novel. Karyna Szmurlo is professor of French in the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities at Clemson University. Her research on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women writers combines history, feminist theory, and the philosophy of language. Among her several collections of essays on Staël is the recently edited volume Germaine de Staël: Forging a Politics of Mediation (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Setting the Stage Tili
Boon Cuillé Part I. The Politics of the Passions 1. The Mother, the
Daughter, and the Passions Catherine Dubeau, translated by Sylvie
Romanowski 2. The Virtuous "Passion": The Politics of Pity in Staël's The
Influence of the Passions Nanette Le Coat 3. Passions, Politics, and
Literature: The Quest for Happiness Christine Dunn Henderson 4. Melancholy
in the Pursuit of Happiness: Corinne and the Femme Supérieure Karen de
Bruin Part II. International Aesthetics 5. The Peripheral Heroine Takes
Center Stage: From Owenson's National Tale to Staël's European Genre M.
Ione Crummy 6. Ethnography and Autoethnography in Corinne ou l'Italie
Jennifer Law-Sullivan 7. Liquid Union: Listening through Tears and the
Creation of Community in Corinne Lauren Fortner Ravalico 8. Aeolian
Translation: The Aesthetics of Mediation and the Jouissance of Genre C.C.
Wharram 9. British Legacies of Corinne and the Commercialization of
Enthusiasm Kari Lokke Part III. Philosophy and the Arts 10. The Power to
Corrupt: A Staëlian Perspective on the Fine Arts Susan Tenenbaum 11. The
Many Faces of Germaine de Staël Mary D. Sheriff 12. Staël, Corinne, and the
Women Collectors of Napoleonic Europe Heather Belnap Jensen 13. Germaine de
Staël Defines Romanticism, or the Analogy of the Glass Harmonica Fabienne
Moore 14. Between Ideal and Performance: Corinne in Female-Authored Singer
Narratives of the 1830s Julia Effertz Bibliography Index About the
Contributors