John Claiborne Isbell

Stael, Romanticism and Revolution (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Two centuries of sexism have hidden Stael's place in international history. Straddling the divides of the French Revolution, Napoleonic Europe, emergent nationalism, and European Romanticism, and playing pivotal roles in those movements, she was also a friend of Byron, Jefferson, and Tsar Alexander. Extensive archival research, and a complete contextual overview of Stael's writings, here restore Stael's canonical status as political philosopher, historian, European Romantic theorist, and Revolutionary. While the term stateswoman is not commonly used, it describes Stael aptly, acting as she necessarily did through men around her. The brilliant game of masks and proxies imposed on her by patriarchy is detailed here, alongside her unending fight for the oppressed, from the nations of Napoleon's subjugated Europe to the victims of the Atlantic slave trade. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009362702
• Artikelnr.: 68994896

Autorenporträt

John Claiborne Isbell is a scholar, educator, and poet. He has published in French and English on Staël and on European Romanticism, starting in 1994 with The Birth of European Romanticism: Truth and Propaganda in Staël's De l'Allemagne (Cambridge University Press). His most recent monograph is An Outline of Romanticism in the West (2022).

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Painful Birth of the Romantic Heroine: Staël as Political Animal
1786-1821; 2. Revolution and the Private Sphere: Lettres sur Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Zulma
Recueil de morceaux détachés
1786-1795; 3. Mme de Staël
Minister for War? Narbonne's 'English' Program under the Assemblée législative; 4. The Social Contract for Staël and Constant
or Does Liberty Have a Sex?; 5. When the Light of Reason Fails: De l'influence des passions sur le bonheur des individus et des nations
1796; 6. Imaginary Europe: De la littérature considérée dans ses rapports avec les institutions sociales; 7. Suicide
Meaning
and Power in the 'Querelle de Delphine'; 8. My Father
Myself: Staël and the Manuscrits de M. Necker; 9. Italy
or Corinne; 10. Interlude: In Search of Romantic Theater; 11. Napoleon Pulps His Enemies: Censors
Police
and De l'Allemagne's Lost 1810 Edition; 12. The Napoleon Apocalypse; 13. Romantic Spain and National Resistance: Staël
Rocca
and the Mémoires sur la guerre des Français en Espagne; 14. A. W. Schlegel
Staël
and Sismondi in 1814: The Groupe de Coppet and the Confédération romantique; 15. The Italian Romantics and Mme de Staël: Art
Society
and Nationhood; 16. Inventing the French Revolution: Staël Considers National Credit
1789-1818; 17. Voices Lost? Staël and Slavery
1786-1830; La Vie dans l'uvre.