Madame de Staël on Politics, Literature, and National Character
| Author | : Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine) |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 390 |
| Release | : 1964 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
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Politics, Literature and National Character
| Author | : Madame De Stael |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2017-07-12 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 1351498126 |
Madame Germaine de Stael is often regarded as the "mistress to an age", or (like England and Russia) one of the three great European "powers" of the 19th century. She was in some sense both, but she was also an important and influential writer whose works, astonishingly, have not, until this volume, been translated into English since the early 19th century. She absorbed the leading ideas of the Enlightenment on literature, politics, science and the social order; turned many of them to her own uses and then bequeathed them to the 19th century, which adopted much of the Enlightenment through her works. She had two related aims: by her writings on politics, to guide Europe as it entered the republican era and to help it maintain its cultural legacy and liberty; and to explain all literature by its relation to social institutions (which has had a profound effect on all subsequent studies of comparative literature). Here, in clear and flowing English prose that conveys both the personality and the style of the original - and that corrects the errors of earlier translations - are selections from Madame Germaine de Stael's major works, including "Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution", "Literature Considered in its Relation to Social Institutions", "Essay on Fiction", "On Germany" and her reflections on Russian and English as well as German national character. They make plain both her amazing modern approach to such subjects as politics, literature, science, education and women, and the tremendous repercussions her work has had.
Madame de Stael on Politics, Literature and National Character
| Author | : Morroe Berger |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 1981-09-01 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780849504839 |
Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition
| Author | : Lawrence Lipking |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 1988-09-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0226484548 |
At the heart of poetic tradition is a figure of abandonment, a woman forsaken and out of control. She appears in writings ancient and modern, in the East and the West, in high art and popular culture produced by women and by men. What accounts for her perennial fascination? What is her function—in poems and for writers? Lawrence Lipking suggests many possibilities. In this figure he finds a partial record of women's experience, an instrument for the expression of religious love and yearning, a voice for psychological fears, and, finally, a model for the poet. Abandoned women inspire new ways of reading poems and poetic tradition.
Corinne
| Author | : Madame de Staël |
| Publisher | : Oxford Paperbacks |
| Total Pages | : 465 |
| Release | : 2008-10-09 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0199554609 |
Corinne, or Italy (1807) is both the story of a love affair between Oswald, Lord Nelvil and a beautiful poetess, and a homage to the landscape, literature and art of Italy. Staël weaves discreet French Revolutionary political allusion and allegory into her romance, whose publication saw her order of exile renewed by Napoleon. This new translation is complemented by notes and an introduction which serve to set an extraordinary work of European Romanticism in its historical and political contexts.
Corinne, Or, Italy
| Author | : Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine) |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 470 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780192825056 |
Corinne, or Italy (1807) is both the story of a love affair and Madame de Stael's homage to the landscape, literature, and art of Italy. The Scottish peer Lord Nelvil is torn between his passion for the beautiful Italian poetess Corinne and respect for his dead father's wish that he should marry Lucile, a traditionally dutiful English girl. His choice leads to tragedy for Corinne and a seared conscience for himself. Madame de Stael weaves discreet French Revolutionary allusion and allegory into her novel. It stands at the birth of modern nationalism and is also one of the first works to put a woman's creativity centre stage. Sylvia Raphael's new translation preserves the natural character of the French original and is complemented by notes and an introduction which sets an extraordinary work of European Romanticism in its historical context.
Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution
| Author | : Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine) |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 436 |
| Release | : 1818 |
| Genre | : France |
| ISBN | : |
Politics, Literature and National Character
| Author | : Madame De Stael |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 2017-10-12 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781138530416 |
Madame Germaine de Stael is often regarded as the "mistress to an age", or (like England and Russia) one of the three great European "powers" of the 19th century. She was in some sense both, but she was also an important and influential writer whose works, astonishingly, have not, until this volume, been translated into English since the early 19th century. She absorbed the leading ideas of the Enlightenment on literature, politics, science and the social order; turned many of them to her own uses and then bequeathed them to the 19th century, which adopted much of the Enlightenment through her works. She had two related aims: by her writings on politics, to guide Europe as it entered the republican era and to help it maintain its cultural legacy and liberty; and to explain all literature by its relation to social institutions (which has had a profound effect on all subsequent studies of comparative literature). Here, in clear and flowing English prose that conveys both the personality and the style of the original - and that corrects the errors of earlier translations - are selections from Madame Germaine de Stael's major works, including "Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution", "Literature Considered in its Relation to Social Institutions", "Essay on Fiction", "On Germany" and her reflections on Russian and English as well as German national character. They make plain both her amazing modern approach to such subjects as politics, literature, science, education and women, and the tremendous repercussions her work has had.
Mistress to an Age
| 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
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 4, The Eighteenth Century
| Author | : H. B. Nisbet |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 978 |
| Release | : 2005-12-08 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780521317207 |
This is a comprehensive 1997 account of the history of literary criticism in Britain and Europe between 1660 and 1800. Unlike previous histories, it is not just a chronological survey of critical writing, but a multidisciplinary investigation of how the understanding of literature and its various genres was transformed, at the start of the modern era, by developments in philosophy, psychology, the natural sciences, linguistics, and other disciplines, as well as in society at large. In the process, modern literary theory - at first often implicit in literary texts themselves - emancipated itself from classical poetics and rhetoric, and literary criticism emerged as a full-time professional activity catering for an expanding literate public. The volume is international both in coverage and in authorship. Extensive bibliographies provide guidance for further specialised study.
