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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1. Verfasser: Worley, Sharon (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lewiston, NY [u.a.] : Mellen, 2009
Schlagworte:European literature Women and literature Salons Women Nationalism and literature Europa Frau Literarischer Salon Geschichte 1799-1815 Literatur mehr... Geistesgeschichte 1800-1815 Staël
Umfang:IX, 502 S., [20] Bl.
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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; Cologne.