Staël, Romanticism and Revolution
Summary
The feel-good place to buy books
Staël, Romanticism and Revolution by John Claiborne Isbell
Two centuries of sexism have hidden Staël's place in international history. Straddling the divides of the French Revolution, Napoleonic Europe, emergent nationalism, and European Romanticism, and playing pivotal roles in those movements, she was also a friend of Byron, Jefferson, and Tsar Alexander. Extensive archival research, and a complete contextual overview of Staël's writings, here restore Staël's canonical status as political philosopher, historian, European Romantic theorist, and Revolutionary. While the term stateswoman is not commonly used, it describes Staël aptly, acting as she necessarily did through men around her. The brilliant game of masks and proxies imposed on her by patriarchy is detailed here, alongside her unending fight for the oppressed, from the nations of Napoleon's subjugated Europe to the victims of the Atlantic slave trade. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
John Claiborne Isbell is a scholar, educator, and poet. He has published in French and English on Staël and on European Romanticism, starting in 1994 with The Birth of European Romanticism: Truth and Propaganda in Staël's De l'Allemagne (Cambridge University Press). His most recent monograph is An Outline of Romanticism in the West (2022).
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781009362733 |
| ISBN 10 | 1009362739 |
| Title | Staël, Romanticism and Revolution |
| Author | John Claiborne Isbell |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In Romanticism |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2025-03-27 |
| Number of pages | 313 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |