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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009362720
• ISBN13: 9781009362726
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 299 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"