Mistress To An Age A Life Of Madame De Staël

Author : J. Christopher Herold
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 517 pages
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Release : 2016-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786259806

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Mistress To An Age: A Life Of Madame De Staël by J. Christopher Herold Pdf

GERMAINE DE STAËL: Mistress to an Age. An aristocrat and daughter of great wealth, she assisted at the birth of the French Revolution; her days and nights a turmoil of political and amorous intrigue, she wrote novels at the breakfast table and pamphlets while she changed her clothes. Disciple of constancy and the grand passion, she carried on ardent, profound love affairs with four brilliant, demanding men at the same time—and satisfied and tortured them all. Genius, great heart, great lover, any man who knew Germaine was hers forever. “An unforgettable portrait of a many-sided woman...as remarkable, as biting as that legendary figure herself”—Saturday Review

Author : Jean Christopher Herold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:729328559

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Author : J. Christopher Herold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
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Release : 1958
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Mistress to an Age by J. Christopher Herold Pdf

Author : J. Christopher Herold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
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Release : 1929
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:637943661

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Mistress to an Age by J. Christopher Herold Pdf

Author : Maria Fairweather
Publisher : Constable
Page : 160 pages
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Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472113306

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Madame de Stael by Maria Fairweather Pdf

The influence of the salons of Paris on the thought and culture of the eighteenth century would be difficult to overstate. They were both intellectual powerhouses and also assemblies where the latest and most extreme fashion was displayed. 'Young gallants...wearing silk waistcoats embroidered with Chinese pagodas, making love to ladies reclining negligently against the cushions...or accepting small cups of chocolate from the hands of Negro pages', thus Harold Nicolson describes the drawings of the time in his book "The Age of Reason". These meeting places for the vanguard of society were presided over by a succession of brilliantly clever women, the salonieres, and the most brilliant and clever of all of them was Madame de Stael. Although she died at the age of 51 she filled her life to the brim, and enjoyed a hugely influential role among the great names of the day. Born Germaine Necker, in Paris on 22 April 1766, her father was a powerful banker and her mother a Swiss pastor's daughter who never got over her good fortune in marrying a rich man. In 1786 Germaine was married to a secretary in the Swedish embassy called de Stael, but although she thought him 'a perfect gentleman' she also found him dull and clumsy. She began to take lovers - the Vicomte de Narbonne and possibly Talleyrand - and then Benjamin Constant, in whom she at last met her intellectual equal. In 1806 her novel "Delphine" was published. It was an instant success and praised by Goethe and Byron, among others. Her salon thronged with glittering visitors including The Tsar, Talleyrand,and Wellington. Maria Fairweather gives an entrancing account of this vanished world, so merciless to outsiders, but for those of the inner circle incomparably glamorous and exciting.

Author : J. Christopher Herold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
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Release : 1955
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:987257278

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Mistress to an Age by J. Christopher Herold Pdf

Author : Chinatsu Takeda
Publisher : Springer
Page : 366 pages
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Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789811080876

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Mme de Staël and Political Liberalism in France by Chinatsu Takeda Pdf

This book sheds light on the unique aspects of ‘communal liberalism’ in Mme de Staël’s writings and considers her contribution to nineteenth-century French liberal political thought. Focusing notably on the ‘Considérations sur les principaux événements de la Révolution française’, it examines the originality of Stael’s liberal philosophy. Rather than contrasting liberalism with either multiculturalism or republicanism, the book argues that Staël’s communal liberalism challenges the conventions of nineteenth-century political thought, notably through her assertion of the need to institutionalize an organic intermediary connecting the two spheres, an idea later advanced by thinkers such as Jürgen Habermas. Offering a critical reappraisal of Staël’s multifaceted work, this book assesses the political impact of her work, arguing that the political influence of the ‘Considérations’ permeates the liberal historiography of the French Revolution up to the present day.

Author : Angelica Goodden
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 341 pages
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Release : 2008-03-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191528774

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Madame de Staël by Angelica Goodden Pdf

How does exile beget writing, and writing exile? What kind of writing can both be fuelled by absence and prolong it? Exile, which was meant to imprison her, paradoxically gave Madame de Staël a freedom that enabled her to be as active a dissident as any woman in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was capable of being. Repeatedly banished for her nonconformism, she felt she had been made to suffer twice over, first for political daring and then for daring, as a woman, to be political (a particularly grave offence in the eyes of the misogynist Napoleon). Yet her outspokenness - in novels, comparative literary studies, and works of political and social theory - made her seem as much a threat outside her beloved France as within it, while her friendship with statesmen, soldiers, and literary figures such as Byron, Fanny Burney, Goethe, and Schiller simply added to her dangerous celebrity. She preached the virtues of liberalism and freedom wherever she went, turning the experiences of her enforced absence into an arsenal to use against all who tried to suppress her. Even Napoleon, perhaps her greatest foe, conceded, from his own exile on St Helena that she would last. Her unremitting activity as a speaker and writer made her into precisely the sort of activist no woman at that time was permitted to be; yet she paradoxically remained a reluctant feminist, seeming even to connive at the inferior status society granted her sex at the same time as vociferously challenging it, and remaining torn by the conflicting demands of public and private life.

Author : Keith Baker,Jenna Gibbs
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 280 pages
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Release : 2016-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442630260

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Life Forms in the Thinking of the Long Eighteenth Century by Keith Baker,Jenna Gibbs Pdf

For many years, scholars have been moving away from the idea of a singular, secular, rationalistic, and mechanistic “Enlightenment project.” Historian Peter Reill has been one of those at the forefront of this development, demonstrating the need for a broader and more varied understanding of eighteenth-century conceptions of nature. Life Forms in the Thinking of the Long Eighteenth Century is a unique reappraisal of Enlightenment thought on nature, biology, and the organic world that responds to Reill’s work. The ten essays included in the collection analyse the place of historicism, vitalism, and esotericism in the eighteenth century – three strands of thought rarely connected, but all of which are central to Reill’s innovative work. Working across national and regional boundaries, they engage not only French and English but also Italian, Swiss, and German writers.

Author : Lynn McDonald
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 300 pages
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Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773591851

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Women Founders of the Social Sciences by Lynn McDonald Pdf

Ground-breaking and original, this book debunks the myth that empirical social science has been dominated by its male founders and methodologists. The author re-analyses the critical role British, French and American women played in creating the field from the 16th through the early 20th centuries. Included are Mary Astell, Mary Wollstonecraft, Harriet Martineau, Beatrice Webb, Catharine Macauley, Florence Nightingale, Madame de Staël and Jane Addams.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
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Release : 2020-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0461647842

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Life and Times of Madame De Staël by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joanne Wilkes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429839115

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Lord Byron and Madame de Staël by Joanne Wilkes Pdf

Published in 1999. Lord Byron and Madam de Stael made a great impression on Europe in the throes of the Napoleonic Wars, through their personalities, the versions of themselves which they projected through their works, and their literary engagement with contemporary life. However, the strong links between them have never before been explored in detail. This pioneering study looks at their personal relations, from their verbal sparring in Regency society, through the friendship which developed in Switzerland after Byron left England in 1816, to Byron’s tributes to Mme de Stael after her death. It concentrates on their literary links, both direct responses to each other’s works, and the copious evidence of shared concerns. The study deals with their treatment of gender, their grappling with the possibilities for heroic endeavour, their engagement with the social and political situations of Britain, France and Italy, and their conceptions of the role of the writer. Although Byron will need no introduction, Mme de Stael’s standing as a French romantic writer of the first rank is made plain by the strong impact of her writings on the English Poet.

Author : Aurelian Craiutu
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 361 pages
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Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691171340

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A Virtue for Courageous Minds by Aurelian Craiutu Pdf

Political moderation is the touchstone of democracy, which could not function without compromise and bargaining, yet it is one of the most understudied concepts in political theory. How can we explain this striking paradox? Why do we often underestimate the virtue of moderation? Seeking to answer these questions, A Virtue for Courageous Minds examines moderation in modern French political thought and sheds light on the French Revolution and its legacy. Aurelian Craiutu begins with classical thinkers who extolled the virtues of a moderate approach to politics, such as Aristotle and Cicero. He then shows how Montesquieu inaugurated the modern rebirth of this tradition by laying the intellectual foundations for moderate government. Craiutu looks at important figures such as Jacques Necker, Madame de Staël, and Benjamin Constant, not only in the context of revolutionary France but throughout Europe. He traces how moderation evolves from an individual moral virtue into a set of institutional arrangements calculated to protect individual liberty, and he explores the deep affinity between political moderation and constitutional complexity. Craiutu demonstrates how moderation navigates between political extremes, and he challenges the common notion that moderation is an essentially conservative virtue, stressing instead its eclectic nature. Drawing on a broad range of writings in political theory, the history of political thought, philosophy, and law, A Virtue for Courageous Minds reveals how the virtue of political moderation can address the profound complexities of the world today.

Author : Nell Irvin Painter
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393049343

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The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter Pdf

Beginning at the roots of Western civilization, historian Painter traces the invention of the idea of a white race, reminding readers that the concept of race is an all-too-human invention whose meaning, importance, and reality have changed over time.

Author : Maria Norris
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0332820246

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Life and Times of Madame De Staël (Classic Reprint) by Maria Norris Pdf

Excerpt from Life and Times of Madame De Stael When a royal prince deigns to visit a subject, it is customary for the host so honoured to greet his guest at the threshold, and there to make his obeisance as a preliminary to any further intercourse. Much more should I, young, ignorant, and inexperienced, be careful to offer my courtesies to the royal public at the threshold of this little book. For the opinions expressed therein no apology is offered; they have been honestly thought out to the best of my judgment; but if I should be hereafter convinced of their' incorrectness - and Heaven forbid I should live to count that an impossibility - I trust they may be as honestly changed; and that in avow ing the alteration, I may blush not for the reform, but the mistake. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.