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Corinne - or Italy (Paperback)
Madame De Stael; Edited by Sylvia Raphael; Introduction by John Isbell
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`Look at her, she is the image of our beautiful Italy.' Corinne, or
Italy (1807) 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. On arriving in Italy,
Oswald immediately falls under Corinne's magical spell as she is
crowned a national genius at the Captitol. Yet, on returning to
England, he succumbs to convention and honours his late father's
wish by marrying the dutiful English girl, Lucile, despite having
learned that Corinne is Lucile's Italian half-sister. Corinne dies
of a broken heart and Lord Nelvil is left with a seared conscience.
Stael weaves discreet French Revolutionary political allusion and
allegory into her romance, and its publication saw her order of
exile renewed by Napoleon. Indeed, the novel stands as the birth of
modern nationalism, and introduces to French usage the word
`nationalitie'. It is also one of the first works to put a woman's
creativity centre stage. Sylvia Raphael's new translation preserves
the natural character of the French original and the edition is
complemented by notes and and introduction which serve to set an
extraordinary work of European Romanticism in its historical and
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Corinne, or Italy (1807) is both the story of a love affair between Oswald, Lord Nelvil and a beautiful poetess, and a homage to the landscape, literature and art of Italy. Staël weaves discreet French Revolutionary political allusion and allegory into her romance, whose publication saw her order of exile renewed by Napoleon. This new translation is complemented by notes and an introduction which serve to set an extraordinary work of European Romanticism in its historical and political contexts.
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