Madame de Stael

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The Literary Existence of Germaine de Stael
by Charlotte Hogsett. 228 pgs.

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Foreword

Preface

I. Introduction

2. the Threat of Silence

3. the Pedestal and the Statue

4. the Moralist and The Legislator

6. a Topography of the Soul

7 the Right to Sincerity

8 Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index
2.

Corinne, or, Italy
by Madame de Stael. 464 pgs.

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Corrine, or Italy, is both the story of a love affair between Oswald, Lord Nelvil, and a beautiful poetess, and an homage to the landscape, literature and art of Italy. Stael, the subject of recent feminist rediscovery, weaves discreet political allusion into her romance, and upon its publication Napoleon renewed her order of exile. Sylvia Raphel's new translation preserves the natural character of the French original, while the notes and introduction place this extraordinary work of European Romanticism in its historical and political context.

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CORINNE, OR ITALY

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

NOTE ON THE TEXT

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

CHRONOLOGY OF MADAME DE STAËL

CORINNE or Italy

CONTENTS

BOOK I OSWALD

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

BOOK II CORINNE AT THE CAPITOL

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

BOOK III CORINNE

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter I

BOOK IV ROME

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Chapter VI

BOOK V TOMBS, CHURCHES, AND PALACES

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter I

BOOK VI ITALIAN CUSTOMS AND CHARACTER

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

BOOK VII ITALIAN LITERATURE

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

BOOK VIII STATUES AND PICTURES

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

BOOK IX THE PEOPLE'S FESTIVAL AND MUSIC

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

BOOK X HOLY WEEK

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Chapter VI

Chapter I

BOOK XI NAPLES AND THE HERMITAGE OF SAN SALVATORE

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter I

BOOK XII LORD NELVIL'S STORY

Chapter II

BOOK XIII VESUVIUS AND THE NAPLES COUNTRYSIDE

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Chapter VI

Chapter VII

Chapter I

BOOK XIV CORINNE'S STORY

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter I

BOOK XV THE FAREWELL TO ROME AND THE JOURNEY TO VENICE

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Chapter VI

Chapter VII

Chapter VIII

Chapter IX

BOOK XVI DEPARTURE AND ABSENCE

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Chapter VI

Chapter VII

Chapter VIII

BOOK XVII CORINNE IN SCOTLAND

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Chapter VI

Chapter VII

Chapter VIII

Chapter IX

BOOK XVIII THE STAY IN FLORENCE

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Chapter VI

BOOK XIX OSWALD'S RETURN TO ITALY

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Chapter VI

Chapter VII

Chapter I

BOOK XX CONCLUSION

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

MME DE STAËLS NOTES

EXPLANATORY NOTES

A SELECTION OF OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS
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Germaine de Stael, George Sand and the Victorian Woman Artist
by Linda M. Lewis. 278 pgs.

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Germaine De Staël, George Sand, and the Victorian Woman Artist

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

1: Secular Sibyl and Divine Sophia Staël's Corinne and Sand's Consuelo

2: Geraldine Jewsbury Art and Work as Vocation

3: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh and the Labors of Psyche

4: The Erinna Complex and George Eliot's Female Artists

5: Mrs. Humphry (Mary) Ward and the Artist as Medusa

6: The New Woman Künstlerroman

Works Cited

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An Early Dissident: Madame de Stael, in New Criterion
by Renne Winegarten. 4 pgs.

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The Painful Birth of the Romantic Heroine: Stael as Political Animal, 1786-1818, in The Romanic Review
by John Isbell. 9 pgs.

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The painful birth of the Romantic heroine: Stael as political animal, 1786-1818
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Woman as Mediatrix: Essays on Nineteenth-Century European Women Writers (Chap. 3 "Germaine de Stael and the Position of Women in France, England, and Germany")
by Avriel H. Goldberger. 220 pgs.

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Introduction by Germaine Bree The Nineteenth Century: Insights of Contemporary Women Writers (Bettina Von Arnim, Mary Wollstonecraft, Flora Tristan) by Marie Claire Hoock-Demarle Woman as Mediatrix: From Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Germaine de Stael by Madelyn Gutwirth Mme de Stael and the Position of Women in France, England and Germany by Eve Sourian Corinne and the "Yankee Corinna": Mme de Stael and Margaret Fuller by Paula Blanchard George Sand's View of the English by Patricia Thompson Trollope's Choice: Frances Trollope Reads George Sand by Marie-Jacque Hoog George Sand and Marionettes by Julia Frey Musset's Lorenzaccio: George Sand's Ultimate Gift by Alex Szooyi Frederika Bremer: Sweden's First Feminist by Doris Asmundsson An Introduction to the Life and Times of Louise Otto by Ruth Ellen Boetcher Joeres Annette Van Droste-Bulshoff and Critics of "Die Judenbuche" by Maruta Lietina-Ray Towards a New Freedom: Rachel Varhagen and the German Women Writers Before 1848 by Doris Starr Guilloton A Nigilistka and a Communarde: Two Voices of the Nineteenth Century Russian Intelligentka by Isabelle Naginski Juliette Adam: She Devil or Grande Francaise? by Jean Scammon Hyland and Daniel H. Thomas About the Contributors

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Recent Titles in Contributions in Women's Studies

Contents

Introduction

1: The Nineteenth Century: Insights of Contemporary Women Writers

NOTES

2: Woman as Mediatrix: From Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Germaine de Staël

NOTES

3: Germaine de Staël and the Position of Women in France, England, and Germany

NOTES

4: Corinne and the "Yankee Corinna": Madame de Staël and Margaret Fuller

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5: George Sand's View of the English

NOTES

6: Trollope's Choice: Frances Trollope Reads George Sand

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7: George Sand and the Seamless Theater

NOTES

8: Musset's Lorenzaccio: George Sand's Ultimate Gift

NOTES

9: Fredrika Bremer: Sweden's First Feminist

NOTES

10: An Introduction to the Life and Times of Louise Otto

NOTES

11: Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and Critics of "Die Judenbuche"

NOTES

12: Toward a New Freedom: Rahel Varnhagen and the German Women Writers before 1848

NOTES

13: A Nigilistka and a Communarde: Two Voices of the Nineteenth-Century Russian Intelligentka

NOTES

14: Juliette Adam: She Devil or Grande Française?

NOTES

NINETEENTH CENTURY WOMEN WRITERS' INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE November 7, 8, 9, 1980

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Translating Slavery: Gender and Race in French Women's Writing, 1783-1823 (Part 3: "Germaine de Stael")
by Doris Y. Kadish, Francoise Massardier-Kenney. 372 pgs.

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Foreword: "A House of Many Rooms" The Range of Translation Studies

References

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One: Theory, Practice, and History

One: Translation Theory And Practice

Two: Translation in Context

Part Two: Olympe De Gouges (1748-1793)

Three: Feminism, Theater, Race L'Esclavage Des Noirs

Four: Translations of Gouges

Five: On Translating Olympe De Gouges

Part Three: Germaine De Staël (1766-1817)

Six: Staël, Translation, and Race

Seven: Translations of Staël

Eight: Black on White Translation, Race, Class, and Power

Part Four: Claire De Duras (1777-1828)

Nine: Duras Racism and Class

Ten: Translation of Duras

Eleven: Ourika's Three Versions A Comparison

Appendix A: Olympe De Gouges

Appendix B: Germaine De Staël

Appendix C: Claire De Duras

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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The Stories of Citizens: Rousseau, Montesquieu, and de Stael Challenge Enlightenment Reason, in Polity
by Lori J. Marso. 29 pgs.

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The stories of citizens: Rousseau, Montesquieu, and de Stael challenge Enlightenment reason
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Benjamin Constant: A Biography (Chap. 6: "Germaine de Stael (1794-1800)")
by Dennis Wood. 322 pgs.

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`For forty years I have defended the same principle: freedom in everything, in religion, in philosophy, in literature, in industry, in politics - and by freedom I mean the triumph of the individual.' Constant thus summarized his beliefs at the end of his life. A political theorist and a passionate defender of individual liberty, he was also the author of one of the greatest French novels of psychological insight, Adolphe . In a major new biography Dennis Wood traces the development of Constant as a writer centrally preoccupied with the problematics of freedom, not only in the fields of politics and religious belief but also in his own troubled relationship with several women.

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Plates

Preface

Brief Chronology

A Note on Benjamin Constant’s Family

Introduction

1: ‘The Grief That Does Not Speak’: Constant and His Father (1767-1783)

2: ‘The Charms of Friendship’ (1783-1785)

3: Isabelle de Charriere (1785-1787)

4: Escape (1787-1788)

5: The Brunswick Years (1788-1794)

6: Germaine de Stael (1794-1800)

7: ‘The Intermittences of the Heart’ (1800-1806)

8: ‘Italiam, Italiam’ (1806-1812)

9: The End of an Empire (1812-1816)

10: Adolphe (1816-1819)

11: Apotheosis (1819-1830)

Epilogue

Notes

Index
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French Women Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Sourcebook ("Germaine Necker, Baronne de Stael" begins on p. 632)
by Eva Martin Sartori, Dorothy Wynne Zimmerman. 632 pgs.

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Fifty-one essays cover the lives and works of the most important women writers in the history of French literature with an emphasis on their experiences as writers, a discussion of their major themes, and brief surveys of critical reactions. Each essay is followed by a bibliography of primary works, a list of titles translated into English, and a selection of critical studies. An additional essay describes the trobairitz, the women troubadours of the 12th and 13th centuries. The volume ends with a chronology featuring the dates of events and trends of special significance to French women.

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French Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Source Book

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Marie D'Agoult (1805-1876)

Marie-Catherine le Jumel de Barneville, Comtesse D'Aulnoy (1650/51-1705)

Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)

Isabelle de Charriere (1740-1805)

AnorÉe Chedid (1920-)

Christine de Pizan (c. 1365-C. 1430)

Helene Cixous (1937-)

Colette (1873-1954)

Sophie Cottin (1770-1807)

HÉlisenne de Crenne (c. 1510-C. 1560)

Lucie Delarue-Mardrus (1874-1945)

Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786-1859)

Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand (1697-1780)

Pernette Du Guillet (1520?-1545)

Claire de Duras (1777-1828)

Marguerite Duras (1914-)

Judith Gautier (1845-1917)

StÉphanie-FÉlicitÉ, Comtesse de Genlis (1746-1830)

Delphine Gay de Girardin (1804-1855)

Marie le Jars de Gournay (1565-1645)

FranÇoise D'Issembourg D'Happoncourt de Graffigny (1695-1758)

BenoÎte Groult (1920-)

Luce Irigaray (193?-)

Julia Kristeva (1941-)

Juliane Von KrÜdener (1764-1824)

Louise LabÉ (c. 1520-1566)

Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, Comtesse de Lafayette (1634-1693)

Violette Leduc (1907-1972)

Julie de Lespinasse (1732-1776)

FranÇoise Mallet-Joris (1930-)

Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549)

Marie de France (fl. 1160-1178)

Anna de Noailles (1876-1933)

Rachilde (1860-1953)

Marie Jeanne Riccoboni (1713-1792)

Christiane Rochefort (1917-)

Marie Jeanne Phlipon (manon) Roland de la PlatiÈre (1754-1793)

FranÇoise Sagan (1935-)

George Sand (1804-1876)

Nathalie Sarraute (1900-)

Albertine Sarrazin (1937-1967)

Madeleine de Scudery (1607-1701)

Sophie Rostopchine, Comtesse de Segur (1799-1874)

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de SÉvignÉ (1626-1696)

Germaine Necker, Baronne de Stael (1766-1817)

Claudine-Alexandrine Guerin de Tencin (1682-1749)

Flora Tristan (1803-1844)

The Trobairitz (c. 1170-1260)

Marie-Catherine Desjardins de Villedieu (1640?-1683)

Simone Weil (1909-1943)

Monique Wittig (1935-)

Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987)

Appendix A: Situating Women Writers in French History: a Chronology

Appendix B: List of Authors by Date of Birth

Title Index

Subject Index

Contributors
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The French Revolution of 1789 and Its Impact (Chap. "Mme. de Stael: Comparative Politics as Revolutionary Practice")
by Gail M. Schwab, John R. Jeanneney. 396 pgs.

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The essays in this collection, drawn from a Hofstra University bicentennial conference on the French Revolution, seek to come to terms, often from conflicting points of view, with the complex relationship between events and their representations. The question "How did the lived experience that eventually became known as the French Revolution come to be organized?" provides a common thread for the collection. Individual chapters examine the Revolution from the vantage points of theology and philosophy, theater and literature, as well as politics and history.

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