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Subject(s)

• Romanticism—Europe [Browse]
• Romanticism—France [Browse]
• Women intellectuals—France—Biography [Browse]
• Women authors, French—18th century—Biography [Browse]
• Intellectuals—France—Biography [Browse]
• Authors, French—18th century—Biography [Browse]
• Staël Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine) 1766-1817 [Browse]
• Staël Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine) 1766-1817—Political and social views [Browse]

Series

• Cambridge Studies in Romanticism ; 146. [More in this series]
• Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 146

Summary note

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.

Notes

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ISBN

• 9781009362702
• 1009362704
• 9781009362740
• 1009362747
• 9781009362719
• 1009362712

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