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Author Martin, Judith E

Title Germaine de Staël and German Women : Constructing Literary Authority
Published Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (355 pages)
Contents Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: STAËL AS ICON OF FEMALE CELEBRITY AND POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT; Chapter 01. Staël in German Discourse on Literature, Gender, and National Character; Chapter 02. Early Fictional Responses: Politics, National Identity, and Gender in the Novels of Karoline Paulus and F.H. Unger; PART II: STAËL'S CORINNE AND THE FEMALE ARTIST NOVEL; Chapter 03. Corinne and the Female Artist Novel: Caroline Auguste Fischer's Romantic Defiance; Chapter 04. Caroline Pichler's and Johanna Schopenhauer's Restoration Conformity: Corinne as Underground Artist
Summary Germaine de Staël in Germany: Gender and Literary Authority (1800-1850) investigates Staël's significance as an icon of female artistic genius and political engagement for two generations of German women, including Caroline A. Fischer, Caroline Pichler, Johanna Schopenhauer, Bettina von Arnim, Ida Hahn-Hahn, and Luise Mühlbach. These authors drew a significant impetus from Staël's exemplary life and writings, especially her influential novels of political and artistic heroines, Delphine (1802)and Corinne, or Italy (1807), referring to them in order to authorize their own discourses on art and
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Subject Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 1766-1817 -- Influence
Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 1766-1817. Corinne.
SUBJECT Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 1766-1817 fast
Corinne (Staël, Madame de) fast
Subject German fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
German fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Women and literature -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
German fiction
German fiction -- Women authors
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Women and literature
Germany
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781611470352
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