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Germany (Paperback)
Madame De Stael (Anne-Louise-Germaine
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Madame De Stael (Anne-Louise-Germaine
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R431
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Germany (Paperback)
Madame De Stael (Anne-Louise-Germaine
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R588
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Germany (Paperback)
Madame De Stael (Anne-Louise-Germaine
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R590
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De L'allemagne... (Hardcover)
Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël; Created by Madame De Stael
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R1,115
Discovery Miles 11 150
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Madame Germaine de Stael is often regarded as the "mistress to an
age", or (like England and Russia) one of the three great European
"powers" of the 19th century. She was in some sense both, but she
was also an important and influential writer whose works,
astonishingly, have not, until this volume, been translated into
English since the early 19th century. She absorbed the leading
ideas of the Enlightenment on literature, politics, science and the
social order; turned many of them to her own uses and then
bequeathed them to the 19th century, which adopted much of the
Enlightenment through her works. She had two related aims: by her
writings on politics, to guide Europe as it entered the republican
era and to help it maintain its cultural legacy and liberty; and to
explain all literature by its relation to social institutions
(which has had a profound effect on all subsequent studies of
comparative literature). Here, in clear and flowing English prose
that conveys both the personality and the style of the original -
and that corrects the errors of earlier translations - are
selections from Madame Germaine de Stael's major works, including
"Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution",
"Literature Considered in its Relation to Social Institutions",
"Essay on Fiction", "On Germany" and her reflections on Russian and
English as well as German national character. They make plain both
her amazing modern approach to such subjects as politics,
literature, science, education and women, and the tremendous
repercussions her work has had.
In 1802 Napoleon decided that there was no room in France for both
himself and Madame de Stael, and he therefore sent into exile the
woman whose intelligent liberal views were potentially dangerous
for him. At first she was banished from Paris, and later, after the
suppression of her book on Germany, from France. She began to write
her memoirs, and was so carefully watched by Napoleon's agents that
she even had to change the names of many people she mentioned,
substituting English for French names in the manuscript. She stayed
in Switzerland, travelled through Germany and Austria, and later
through Poland into Russia. After she had stayed in Kiev, Moscow
and St Petersburg, Napoleon began his ill-fated expedition to
Russia. She left the country in haste for Sweden, and it was there
that much of this book was written. In his introduction to it her
eldest son, Auguste, explains how he edited the manuscript and
draws attention to the fact that his mother's remarks about
Napoleon were extremely bitter because they were written when the
author had been suffering most deeply from censorship and exile.
The modern reader may be intrigued by other aspects of this book,
including Madame de Stael's analysis of Bonaparte's psychological
make-up, but most of all perhaps by her description of her stay in
Russia, after a long wait for a passport, and by her remarks about
the Imperial family and the Russian character in general. The
quality of the writing is personal, straightforward and readable,
as in all her other books. The reader can almost hear her
discussing Napoleon with the Tsar Alexander, and is taken with her
on a conducted tour of the Kremlin, the city streets of Moscow and
the Russian countryside. Her remarks about Russia are often
relevant today: "What characterizes this people, is something
gigantic of all kinds: ordinary dimensions are not at all
applicable to it". And, at the other end of the scale, "What the
English call comforts are hardly to be met with in Russia".
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Corinne - or Italy (Paperback)
Madame De Stael; Edited by Sylvia Raphael; Introduction by John Isbell
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R334
R240
Discovery Miles 2 400
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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
political contexts. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford
World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature
from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's
commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a
wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions
by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text,
up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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De L'allemagne... (Paperback)
Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël; Created by Madame De Stael
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R884
Discovery Miles 8 840
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