Madame de Staël and Benjamin Constant
Author | : Elisabeth de Nolde (baronne) |
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Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1906 |
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Author | : Elisabeth de Nolde (baronne) |
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Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1906 |
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Author | : Renee Winegarten |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0300119259 |
When they first met in 1794, shortly after the Reign of Terror, Germaine de Staël and Benjamin Constant were both in their twenties, both married, and both outsiders. She was already celebrated and a published writer, whereas he, though ambitious, was unknown. This compelling dual biography tells the extraordinary story of their union and disunion, set against a European background of momentous events and dramatic social and cultural change. Renee Winegarten offers new perspectives on each of the protagonists, revealing their rare qualities and their all-too-human failings as well as the complex nature of their debt to one another. Their passionate and productive relationship endured on and off for seventeen years. Winegarten traces their story largely through their own words--letters and autobiographical writings--and illuminates the deep intellectual and visceral bond they shared despite disparate personalities and gifts. Exploring their relationships with Napoleon and the Bourbons, their different responses to the momentous upheavals of postrevolutionary France, their support of individual liberty with order, and more, the book concludes with an appreciation of de Staël's and Constant's singular contributions to a new literature and to the history of liberty.
Author | : Germaine de Staël |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1987-08-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780231513180 |
An Extraordinary Woman
Author | : Anne Louise Germaine de Staël |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9401142831 |
In her letters Mme de Staël provides a panoramic historical outlook of the European literary, cultural and political scene between 1789 and 1817, i.e. the Revolution, the Napoleonic era and the Restoration. This edition, as its French original, includes rare contemporary illustrations never published before in this connection. For this book there is no specific level of readership.
Author | : Renee Winegarten |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Authors, French |
ISBN | : 9780300176247 |
Author | : Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine) |
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Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1906 |
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Author | : Madelyn Gutwirth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
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Crossing the borders
Author | : Anne Louise Germaine Staël-Holstein (baronne de) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1907 |
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Author | : Elisabeth De Nolde |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-10-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781018047393 |
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Author | : J. Christopher Herold |
Publisher | : Grove Press |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780802138378 |
J. Christopher Herold vigorously tells the story of the fierce Madame de Stael, revealing her courageous opposition to Napoleon, her whirlwind affairs with the great intellectuals of her day, and her idealistic rebellion against all that was cynical, tyrannical, and passionless. Germaine de Stael's father was Jacques Necker, the finance minister to Louis XVI, and her mother ran an influential literary-political salon in Paris. Always precocious, at nineteen Germaine married the Swedish ambassador to France, Eric Magnus Baron de Stael-Holstein, and in 1785 took over her mother's salon with great success. Germaine and de Stael lived most of their married life apart. She had many brilliant lovers. Talleyrand was the first, Narbonne, the minister of war, another; Benjamin Constant was her most significant and long-lasting one. She published several political and literary essays, including "A Treatise on the Influence of the Passions upon the Happiness of Individuals and of Nations," which became one of the most important documents of European Romanticism. Her bold philosophical ideas, particularly those in "On Literature," caused feverish commotion in France and were quickly noticed by Napoleon, who saw her salon as a rallying point for the opposition. He eventually exiled her from France. This winner of the 1959 National Book Award is "excellent ... detailed, full of color, movement, great names, and lively incident" -- The New York Times "Mr. Herold's full-bodied biography is clear-eyed, intelligent, and written with abundant wit and zest." -- The Atlantic Monthly