Madame de Staël: Her Friends, and Her Influence in Politics and Literature

ISBN-13: 9781108059862 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 562 str.

Charlotte Blennerhassett; Jane Eliza Gordon Cumming

Opis

An accomplished biographer of figures ranging from Talleyrand to Cardinal Newman, Charlotte Blennerhassett (1843 1917) originally published this three-volume study in German. Reissued here is the English translation of 1889 by J.E. Gordon Cumming. Madame de Stael (1766 1817), an intellectual in Paris at the turn of the nineteenth century, was ranked by Auguste Comte as among the 'great men' of the era. A novelist, salonniere, literary and social critic, and follower of Rousseau, she became keenly involved in the opposition to Louis XVI. Volume 2 of Blennerhassett's authoritative study addresses Madame de Stael's life from the Revolution through to the first decade of the nineteenth century, examining the ascent of Napoleon, with whom she strongly disagreed, and her exile to Coppet in Switzerland where she organised her famous salon as well as her celebrated visit to England and travels in Germany."