Germaine de Stael
16 Nov, 2017
840 French and related literatures
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and impact of Germaine de Stael (1766-1817) who Byron praised as Europe’s greatest living writer, and was at the heart of intellectual and literary life in the France of revolution and of Napoleon. As well as attracting and inspiring others in her salon, she wrote novels, plays. literary criticism, political essays, and poems and developed the ideas behind Romanticism. She achieved this while regularly exiled from the Paris in which she was born, having fallen out with Napoleon who she opposed, becoming a towering figure in the history of European ideas.
Guests
- Catriona Seth
5 episodes
Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford -
Alison Finch No other episodes
Professor Emerita of French Literature at the University of Cambridge - Katherine Astbury
3 episodes
Associate Professor and Reader in French Studies at the University of Warwick
Reading list
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The Birth of European Romanticism: Truth and Propaganda in Stael's 'De l'Allemagne', 1810-1813
John Claireborne Isbell (Cambridge University Press, 1994) Google Books → -
Romanticism: A Very Short Introduction
Michael Ferber (Oxford University Press, 2010) Google Books → -
French Literature: A Cultural History
Alison Finch (Polity, 2010) Google Books → -
Women's Writing in Nineteenth-Century France
Alison Finch (Cambridge University Press, 2000) Google Books → -
Germaine de Stael: A Political Portrait
Biancamaria Fontana (Princeton University Press, 2016) Google Books → -
A History of Women in the West (vol 4): _Emerging Feminism from Revolution to World War
Genevieve Fraisse and Michelle Perrot (eds.) (Belknap Press, 1993) Google Books → -
Juniper Hall: An English Refuge from the French Revolution
Linda Kelly (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1991) Google Books → -
A History of Modern French Literature
Christopher Prendergast (ed.) (Princeton University Press, 2017) Google Books → -
Delphine
Germaine de Stael (trans. Avriel H. Goldberger) (Northern Illinois University Press, 1995) -
Corinne or Italy
Germaine de Stael (trans. Sylvia Raphael) (Oxford University Press, 2008) Google Books → -
Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution
Germaine de Stael (ed. Aurelian Craiutu) (Liberty Fund, 2008) Google Books → -
Madame de Stael
Maria Fairweather (Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2005) Google Books → -
Germaine de Stael & Benjamin Constant: A Dual Biography
Renee Winegarten (Yale University Press, 2008) Google Books →
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