Corinne, or, Italy / Madame de Staël.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Contributor:

Raphael, Sylvia, translator.

Series:

Oxford world's classics

Standardized Title:

Corinne. English

Language:

English

French

Genre:

Novels.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 422 pages).

Edition:

[New edition] / translated and edited by Sylvia Raphael ; introduction by John Isbell.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This is both the story of a love affair between the Scottish peer, Oswald, Lord Nelvil and a beautiful poetess, and a homage to the landscape, literature and art of Italy. The author weaves discreet French Revolutionary political allusion and allegory into her romance, whose publication saw her order of exile renewed by Napoleon.

Notes:

Translated from the French.

This edition of this translation previously issued in print: 1998.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record and publisher information.

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9780191921926

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.