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Chapter 2 - Revolution and the Private Sphere

Lettres sur Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Zulma, Recueil de morceaux détachés, 1786–1795

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2023

John Claiborne Isbell
John Claiborne Isbell
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University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley
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Chapter 2 traces the balancing or buffeting of our author between private and public spheres, beneath the burning sky of the Revolution. It follows the appearance of her first published work, the Lettres sur Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in granular detail, amid the highly charged context of 1788–1789, as the French Revolution began; it then traces the publication in context of her story Zulma and her Recueil de morceaux détachés, in 1794–1795, arguing for a radical redating of several pieces in this collection.

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Staël, Romanticism and Revolution
The Life and Times of the First European
 , pp. 12 - 29
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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