The Birth of European Romanticism: Truth and Propaganda in Stael's 'De l'Allemagne', 1810-1813

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Birth of European Romanticism: Truth and Propaganda in Stael's 'De l'Allemagne', 1810-1813
Authors and Contributors      By (author) John Claiborne Isbell
SeriesCambridge Studies in French
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:288
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140
Category/GenreLiterary studies - c 1800 to c 1900
ISBN/Barcode 9780521032001
ClassificationsDewey:848.609
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 23 November 2006
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

It was through Stael's best-seller De l'Allemagne that the term 'Romanticism', coined in Germany, reached Europe and America. Around this term, Stael 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 Stael'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.

Reviews

"The importance of Mme. de Stael's De l'Allemagne can scarcely be questioned." Monatshefte "This is an important book that will undoubtedly encourgae debate across the spectrum of romantic criticism...The Birth of European Romaticism has great appeal to a wide general public as well as to specialists in the area." Philip Mellen, Germanic Notes and Reviews