The French-Swiss woman of letters and novelist Germaine de Staël [full name Anne Louise Germaine Necker, Baronne de Staël-Holstein, historically referred to as Madame de Staël] (1766-1817) greatly influenced European thought and...

Germaine de Staël was born into a time of stormy change, and she suffered the buffetings, in her life and in her writings, of its contradictory impulses. Her figure and her work acquire enhanced coherence if one considers her career as that of a...

Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël-Holstein's impact on nineteenth-century theater comes above all from De l'Allemagne (1810-1813; translated as Germany, 1813), to which later Romantic drama theory (Stendhal's Racine et Shakspeare [1823] and Victor...

Although for many years her reputation rested largely on her critical works, de Staël has, since the 1970s, been viewed by feminist scholars as an important novelist. As a critic, de Staël is credited with inculcating the theories of...

Baronne Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein (née Necker) (April 22, 1766 – July 14, 1817) (IPA: [stal]), commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French-speaking Swiss author living in Paris and abroad. She influenced literary tastes in...

Anne Louise Deval: El rincón de Caín. Ediciones RIL, Santiago, 2003, 177 pp. Esta novela representa una síntesis genial de lo que diariamente transmiten los medios de comunicación: el mal en sus múltiples sutilezas y expresiones individuales y colectivas, siempre impregnadas de...

SERIAL WRITES In postwar Paris, a cultural setting that produced more than its share of polymaths, Boris Vian stood out. The engineer who switched professions at age twenty-seven following the phenomenal, and controversial, success of his book J'irai cracher sur vos tombes (I...

In the following excerpt, Hogsett examines de Staël's attempts to insert feminine ways of narration into a masculine-oriented history and literature in De la littérature considérée dans ses rapports avec les institutions sociales and Delphine.

In the following essay, Heller evaluates the impact of de Staël's feminist narrative in Corinne on twentieth century readers.

In the following essay, Coleman contends that the influential narrative voice of Corinne is traceable “to Staël's own experience with exile and other political expressions.”