Women's literary salons and political propaganda during the Napoleonic era : the cradle of patriotic nationalism
The salon as a political arena and the development of Germaine de Stael's literary theory -- Gendered reconstruction of feminist authority in the Prince's Parlor: historicism and fiction in Stephanie Genlis' royalist politics; Juliette Recamier and Prince Augustus of Prussia in Genlis...
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Lewiston, NY [u.a.] : Mellen,
2009
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| Schlagworte: | European literature Women and literature Salons Women Nationalism and literature Europa Frau Literarischer Salon Geschichte 1799-1815 Literatur mehr... |
| Umfang: | IX, 502 S., [20] Bl. |
| Zusammenfassung: | The salon as a political arena and the development of Germaine de Stael's literary theory -- Gendered reconstruction of feminist authority in the Prince's Parlor: historicism and fiction in Stephanie Genlis' royalist politics; Juliette Recamier and Prince Augustus of Prussia in Genlis's Athenais -- Hieroglyph and symbol: aesthetics and morality in the harmony of the spheres; the estate as icon and allegory of the state: literature, art collections, public monuments, and national identity; classical mythology and Christian iconography as moral signifiers -- The Apollonian muse in Germaine de Stael's Corinne -- Italian cultural patrimony and memories of revolution: the anti-Napoleonic Florence salon of Louise Stolberg and Germaine de Stael's Corinne -- Germaine de Stael and Napoleon: resistance in antithesis; Napoleon and the cult of empire -- Drama as political propaganda: de Stael's De l'Allemagne and the heroic archetype; romanticism as a definition of German character -- Ethical aesthetics and national identity in Dorothea Schlegel's Florentin |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | IX, 502 S., [20] Bl. |
| ISBN: | 9780773438354 0773438351 |