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Madame de Stael: Her Friends, and Her Influence in Politics and Literature

Madame de Stael: Her Friends, and Her Influence in Politics and Literature

Blennerhassett, Charlotte
Gordon Cumming, Jane Eliza

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Literary CriticismGeneral European History

ISBN10: 1108059864
ISBN13: 9781108059862
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Apr 18 2013
Pages: 562
Weight: 1.55
Height: 1.25 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
An accomplished biographer of figures ranging from Talleyrand to Cardinal Newman, Charlotte Blennerhassett (1843-1917) originally published this three-volume study in German. Reissued here is the English translation of 1889 by J.E. Gordon Cumming. Madame de Staël (1766-1817), an intellectual in Paris at the turn of the nineteenth century, was ranked by Auguste Comte as among the 'great men' of the era. A novelist, salonnière, literary and social critic, and follower of Rousseau, she became keenly involved in the opposition to Louis XVI. Volume 2 of Blennerhassett's authoritative study addresses Madame de Staël's life from the Revolution through to the first decade of the nineteenth century, examining the ascent of Napoleon, with whom she strongly disagreed, and her exile to Coppet in Switzerland - where she organised her famous salon - as well as her celebrated visit to England and travels in Germany.

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