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Two centuries of sexism have hidden Staƫl's place in international
history. Straddling the divides of the French Revolution,
Napoleonic Europe, emergent nationalism, and European Romanticism,
and playing pivotal roles in those movements, she was also a friend
of Byron, Jefferson, and Tsar Alexander. Extensive archival
research, and a complete contextual overview of Staƫl's writings,
here restore Staƫl's canonical status as political philosopher,
historian, European Romantic theorist, and Revolutionary. While the
term stateswoman is not commonly used, it describes Staƫl aptly,
acting as she necessarily did through men around her. The brilliant
game of masks and proxies imposed on her by patriarchy is detailed
here, alongside her unending fight for the oppressed, from the
nations of Napoleon's subjugated Europe to the victims of the
Atlantic slave trade. This title is part of the Flip it Open
Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website
Cambridge Core for details.
It was through Stael's best-seller De l'Allemagne that the term
'Romanticism', coined in Germany, reached Europe and America.
Around this term, Stael built a new and universal agenda: her
manifesto offered Napoleon's Europe an alternative to everything he
stood for. The new universe she revealed helped to bury the
neo-Classical world and to shape the nineteenth century. In this
important work, Dr Isbell reasserts Stael's place in history and
analyses her vast agenda, which covers every Classical and Romantic
divide in art, philosophy, religion, and society from 1789 to 1815.
This investigation sheds light upon the two different revolutions
that created modern Europe, seen here by a leader of both.
It was through Stael's best-seller De l'Allemagne that the term
'Romanticism', coined in Germany, reached Europe and America.
Around this term, Stael built a new and universal agenda: her
manifesto offered Napoleon's Europe an alternative to everything he
stood for. The new universe she revealed helped to bury the
neo-Classical world and to shape the nineteenth century. In this
important work, Dr Isbell reasserts Stael's place in history and
analyses her vast agenda, which covers every Classical and Romantic
divide in art, philosophy, religion, and society from 1789 to 1815.
This investigation sheds light upon the two different revolutions
that created modern Europe, seen here by a leader of both.
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