Germaine de Staël, Daughter of the Enlightenment: The Writer and Her Turbulent EraHumanity Books, 2007 - 303 Seiten One of the most fascinating and influential women in French history was Germaine de Staël (1766-1817). Raised in a stimulating intellectual environment by parents connected to the court of Louis XVI, she became an internationally known writer, intellectual, and political activist. As the engaging, intelligent host of a popular salon in Paris and through frequent travels, she met some of the leading Enlightenment figures of the day, many of whom became her friends and confidants: William Pitt the Younger, Benjamin Constant, Lord Byron, August Wilhelm Schlegel, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, and Czar Alexander I, to name a few. Later in life she gained much notoriety and had to flee the country because of her outspoken opposition to the tyranny of Napoleon Bonaparte. In this engrossing biography, Sergine Dixon traces both the personal and public life of this very accomplished woman. She recounts her early years in the waning years of the French royal court, the turbulent period of the French Revolution, her exiles to Switzerland and England, and her unwavering defense of republicanism during the reign of Napoleon. Analyzing her novels, correspondence, and writings on politics and the intellectual trends of the time, Dixon presents an appealing portrait of the woman whose life and career bridged the end of the Enlightenment and the beginning of Romanticism. |
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... Chateaubriand's remark that Germaine's claim of perfectibility was an obsession disap- pointed her . Here was another child of the Enlightenment , bright , tal- ented , and enthusiastic . Born in 1768 , he too experienced the trauma of ...
... Chateaubriand's remark that Germaine's claim of perfectibility was an obsession disap- pointed her . Here was another child of the Enlightenment , bright , tal- ented , and enthusiastic . Born in 1768 , he too experienced the trauma of ...
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... Chateaubriand understood this , and he approved of the message given by Delphine - Germaine . To his mind and to those of Germaine's intellectual friends , the frenzied idolizing of a Supreme Being , the spectacle of its murderous ...
... Chateaubriand understood this , and he approved of the message given by Delphine - Germaine . To his mind and to those of Germaine's intellectual friends , the frenzied idolizing of a Supreme Being , the spectacle of its murderous ...
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... Chateaubriand visited Ger- maine shortly before her death , he was greeted with " Bonjour , my dear Francis ( in English ) , I am suffering , but that does not prevent me from loving you . ” That summer day in 1817 , Chateaubriand was ...
... Chateaubriand visited Ger- maine shortly before her death , he was greeted with " Bonjour , my dear Francis ( in English ) , I am suffering , but that does not prevent me from loving you . ” That summer day in 1817 , Chateaubriand was ...
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Foreword | 9 |
The Nurturing | 23 |
Moments in Time | 37 |
Urheberrecht | |
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