|
The Birth of European Romanticism: Truth and Propaganda in Stael's 'De L'Allemagne', 1810-1813 (Cambridge Studies in French)
|
| List Price: | £70.00 |
| Price: | £66.50 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Delivery on orders over £5. Details |
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk
Product Description
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.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #3724624 in Books
- Published on: 1994-10-13
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 288 pages
Editorial Reviews
Review
"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
