Germaine De StaËl
(1766 - 1817)
(Born Anne Louis Germaine Necker; later Baronne de Staël-Holstein; also known as Madame de Staël) French critic, novelist, historian, and playwright.
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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] (1766-18...
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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 ...
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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 (S...
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In the following essay, Swallow assesses Delphine as it depicts “the oppressive effects of patriarchal hegemony.”
Madame de Staël has suffered from superficial and fallacious c...
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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.”...
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In the following essay, Isbell argues that de Staël chose to produce literary art in response to her exclusion from politics as a woman.
1. On a raison d’exclure les femmes des affair...
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In the following essay, Winegarten probes the results of de Staël's exile from France during the Napoleonic regime.
There is a world elsewhere.
—Coriolanus Act III, scene i...
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In the following essay, Gutwirth analyzes de Staël's views on love, passion, and ambition as expressed in De l’influence des passions.
Quelle époque ai-je choisie pour f...
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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 consid&#x...
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In the following essay, Heller evaluates the impact of de Staël's feminist narrative in Corinne on twentieth century readers.
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The publication of Avriel H. Goldberger's new tr...
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In the following essay, Bowman considers the problem of communication in de Staël's writing.
One of the results of absolute power which most contributed to Napoleon's downfall ...
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In the following essay, Schor examines the relationship between death and femininity in Corinne.
On eût dit que dans ces lieux, comme dans la tragédie de Hamlet, les ombres erraient a...
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In the following excerpt, Besser surveys the story, theme, and critical reception of Delphine.
Staël's two principal novels were to earn her spectacular success. Her first full-length...
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In the following essay, Massardier-Kenney investigates de Staël's critique of cultural values in her work, particularly in the antislavery sentiment of Mirza.
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In the following essay, Birkett discusses the dynamics of subjective and collective narrative voice within the feminist text of Corinne.
A central preoccupation in Germaine de Staël's...
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Critical Essay by Noreen J. Swallow
