truth and propaganda in Staël's "De l'Allemagne", 1810-1813 /
First Statement of Responsibility
John Claiborne Isbell.
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Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Cambridge University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1994.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (xiii, 269 pages).
SERIES
Series Title
Cambridge studies in French ;
Volume Designation
49
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction -- Birth of a nation -- Staël's romantic Germany in 1810 -- Romantic literature and politics -- Philosophy and ethics in Napoleonic Europe -- Religion, love, enthusiasm -- a new Enlightenment -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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It was through Staël's best-seller De l'Allemagne that the term 'Romanticism', coined in Germany, reached Europe and America. Around this term, Staël built a new and universal agenda: her manifesto offered Napoleon's Europe an alternative to everything he stood for. The new universe she revealed helped to bury the neo-Classical world and to shape the nineteenth century. In this important work, Dr Isbell reasserts Staël's place in history and analyses her vast agenda, which covers every Classical and Romantic divide in art, philosophy, religion, and society from 1789 to 1815. This investigation sheds light upon the two different revolutions that created modern Europe, seen here by a leader of both.