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Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
August 2023
Print publication year:
2023
Online ISBN:
9781009362719
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Book description

Two centuries of sexism have hidden Staël'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 Staël's writings, here restore Staël's canonical status as political philosopher, historian, European Romantic theorist, and Revolutionary. While the term stateswoman is not commonly used, it describes Staël 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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Contents


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  • Staël, Romanticism and Revolution
    pp i-i
  • Cambridge Studies in Romanticism - Series page
    pp ii-ii
  • Staël, Romanticism and Revolution - Title page
    pp iii-iii
  • The Life and Times of the First European
  • Copyright page
    pp iv-iv
  • Epigraph
    pp v-vi
  • Contents
    pp vii-viii
  • Preface
    pp ix-x
  • Acknowledgments
    pp xi-xii
  • Abbreviations
    pp xiii-xvi
  • Additional material
    pp xvii-xviii
  • Introduction
    pp 1-3
  • Chapter 1 - The Painful Birth of the Romantic Heroine
    pp 4-11
  • Staël as Political Animal, 1786–1821
  • Chapter 4 - The Social Contract for Staël and Constant, or Does Liberty Have a Sex?
    pp 41-50
  • Chapter 7 - Suicide, Meaning, and Power in the Querelle of Delphine
    pp 68-81
  • Chapter 8 - My Father, Myself
    pp 82-88
  • Staël and the Manuscrits de M. Necker
  • Chapter 9 - Italy, or Corinne
    pp 89-99
  • Chapter 10 - Interlude
    pp 100-108
  • In Search of Romantic Theater
  • Chapter 11 - Napoleon Pulps His Enemies
    pp 109-123
  • Censors, Police, and De l’Allemagne’s Lost 1810 Edition
  • Chapter 12 - The Napoleon Apocalypse
    pp 124-142
  • Chapter 15 - The Italian Romantics and Madame de Staël
    pp 173-184
  • Art, Society, and Nationhood
  • Chapter 16 - Inventing the French Revolution
    pp 185-199
  • Staël Considers National Credit, 1789–1818
  • Chapter 17 - Voices Lost?
    pp 200-211
  • Staël and Slavery, 1786–1830
  • Conclusion
    pp 212-213
  • La Vie dans l’œuvre
  • Notes
    pp 214-267

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