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Germaine de Stael in Germany - Gender and Literary Authority (1800-1850) (Hardcover)
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Germaine de Stael in Germany - Gender and Literary Authority (1800-1850) (Hardcover)
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Germaine de Stael and German Women: Gender and Literary Authority
(1800-1850) investigates Stael's significance as an icon of female
artistic genius and political engagement for two generations of
German women, including Caroline A. Fischer, Caroline Pichler,
Johanna Schopenhauer, Bettina von Arnim, Ida Hahn-Hahn, and Luise
Muhlbach. These authors drew a significant impetus from Stael's
exemplary life and writings, especially her influential novels of
political and artistic heroines, Delphine (1802) and Corinne, or
Italy (1807), referring to them in order to authorize their own
discourses on art and politics, and to buttress their identity as
writers in a period when female authorship generated intense
controversy. Taking references to Stael and her texts as a starting
point opens fresh perspectives on German women's novels, while at
the same time revealing their authors' participation in the broader
European women's literary tradition. Whereas several novels from
the first decade of the century echo Delphine by uniting domestic
fiction with political themes, Stael's epoch-making novel of female
poetic genius, Corinne, left a more lasting literary legacy in a
tradition of German female artist novels. Corinne exemplified the
creative woman's dilemma between fame and love, and subsequent
German novelists explore this conflict, while several also emulate
Stael's myth-making in Corinne as a strategy for attributing
transcendent genius to their heroines. Reading for subtexts of
female self-expression and development brings to light
counter-narratives of female creative transcendence, often evoked
through allusions to mythological figures. Martin suggests a
revision of German literary history by uncovering a neglected
tradition of artist novels positioned between the German
Kunstlerroman and Stael's newly inaugurated international dialogue
on women's role in public culture.
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