Madame de Stael : the dangerous exile / Angelica Goodden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goodden, Angelica.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 1766-1817.

Staël.

Women authors, French--18th century--Biography.

Women authors, French.

Authors, French--18th century--Biography.

Authors, French.

Women authors, French--19th century--Biography.

Authors, French--19th century--Biography.

Exiled women authors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How does exile beget writing, and writing exile? What kind of writing can both be fuelled by absence and prolong it? Exile, which was meant to imprison her, paradoxically gave Madame de Sta--euml--;l a freedom that enabled her to be as active a dissident as any woman in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was capable of being. Repeatedly banished for her nonconformism, she felt she had been made to suffer twice over, first for political daring and then for daring, as awoman, to be political (a particularly grave offence in the eyes of the misogynist Napoleon). Yet her outspokenn

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; 1. Juniper Hall; 2. Passions Before Literature; 3. Delphine and its Aftermath; 4. On Germany; 5. Corinne or Italy; 6. From Ennui to Enterprise; 7. A Quick Trip from Coppet; 8. Lionized in London; 9. Eternal Recurrence; Conclusion; Select Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-320) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-160811-4

9786611852351

1-281-85235-X

0-19-152877-3

OCLC:

236810233