Stael, Romanticism and Revolution - The Life and Times of the First European

Two centuries of sexism have hidden Stael'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 Stael's writings, here restore Stael's canonical status as political philosopher, historian, European Romantic theorist, and Revolutionary. While the term stateswoman is not commonly used, it describes Stael aptly, acting as she necessarily did through men around her. The brilliant game of masks and proxies imposed on her by patriarchy is detailed here, alongside her unending fight for the oppressed, from the nations of Napoleon's subjugated Europe to the victims of the Atlantic slave trade. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

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• Authors: John Claiborne Isbell, John Claiborne (University of Texas Isbell, Isbell John Claiborne
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2023
• EAN: 9781009362726
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0936272-6
• No. of pages: 299
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Print on Demand; Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; French, History of Ideas, France, Spain, English, Italy, Literary studies: general, Romanticism, Political science and theory, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Early 19th century c 1800 to c 1850, Later 18th century c 1750 to c 1799