Germaine de Staël revisited:

An innovative and daring writer and conversationalist, Germaine de Stael (1766-1817) was an anomaly in an era when men dominated the literary world. Among her works are two major novels, Delphine (1802) and Corinne (1807), both popular international successes at the time of their publication. Stael...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Besser, Gretchen R. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Twayne u.a. 1994
Series:Twayne's world authors series 849 : French literature
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:An innovative and daring writer and conversationalist, Germaine de Stael (1766-1817) was an anomaly in an era when men dominated the literary world. Among her works are two major novels, Delphine (1802) and Corinne (1807), both popular international successes at the time of their publication. Stael achieved her greatest prominence, however, as a moral and political essayist, and was banished by Napoleon in 1803 for her outspoken commentary
Her exile inspired Germany (1813), a discourse on the country's people, institutions, and culture. Germany is considered a seminal cross-cultural work of the early 19th century, for it introduced Germany and its arts and literature to the West and exerted a capital influence on the French romantic movement. A child of the Enlightenment, Stael epitomized the European culture that bridged neoclassicism to romanticism
Physical Description:XVII, 180 S. Ill.
ISBN:0805782869