Writing the Self, Writing the Nation: Romantic Selfhood in the Works of Germaine de Staël and Claire de Duras

ISBN-13: 9781788742085 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 240 str.

Stacie Allan

Opis

The French Revolution represents a pivotal moment within the history of personhood in France, where gender and national differences provided the foundations of society. This book considers Germaine de Staël's and Claire de Duras's depictions of men's and women's shared and diverging lived experiences to offer a new perspective on the period.

Spis treści

CONTENTS: Introduction: The Romantic Novel in France - Between Self and Other: The roman personnel - The English Malady: Towards a Transnational mal du siècle - Patrie and père: Shaping Masculinity - A Woman's Place in the Nation - On England: Between Nationhood and Cosmopolitanism.

O autorze

Stacie Allan is a specialist in French literature and culture, primarily early nineteenth-century novels. Her research centres on the impact of intercultural encounters on individual subjectivity and literary production. She received her PhD from the University of Bristol in 2017 and has previously taught on French courses at the universities of Bristol and Westminster.