Germaine de Staël : : A Political Portrait / / Biancamaria Fontana.
Germaine de Staël (1766-1817) is perhaps best known today as a novelist, literary critic, and outspoken and independent thinker. Yet she was also a prominent figure in politics during the French Revolution. Biancamaria Fontana sheds new light on this often overlooked aspect of Staël's life and...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION: A Passion for Politics
- CHAPTER 1. Interpreting the Opinion of the Majority of the Nation (1789-91)
- CHAPTER 2. The View from the Executive (1792)
- CHAPTER 3. Politics as Propaganda: Defending the Queen (1793)
- CHAPTER 4. Addressing William Pitt (1794)
- CHAPTER 5. The Advent of Modern Liberty (1795)
- CHAPTER 6. Condemned to Celebrity: The Influence of Passions (1796)
- CHAPTER 7. The Republic in Theory and Practice (1797-99)
- CHAPTER 8. Raising the Stakes: The Measure of Ambition (1800)
- CHAPTER 9. Back to the Future: The Bourgeois Liberal Republic
- CONCLUSION: Germaine de Staël and Modern Politics
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index