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Chapter 1 - The Painful Birth of the Romantic Heroine

Staël as Political Animal, 1786–1821

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2023

John Claiborne Isbell
John Claiborne Isbell
Affiliation:
University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley
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Chapter 1 argues that Staël only chose art and Europe when banned by men from politics and France. The “romantic heroine” her life and works handed to posterity was a fallback position, used by a woman exiled from the revolutionary stage. Staël’s complete works make this clear, splitting into four epochs: Old Regime, Revolution, Consulat and Empire, and Restoration. They are retraced here.

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Staël, Romanticism and Revolution
The Life and Times of the First European
 , pp. 4 - 11
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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