INTRODUCTION.
In Lady Blennerhassett’s enthusiastic and encyclopaedic
book on Madame de Stael she quotes approvingly Sainte-Beuve’s
phrase that “with Corinne Madame de Stael
ascended...
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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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Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2)
Germaine de Staël
Germaine de Stael