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Women's literary salons and political propaganda during the Napoleonic era : the cradle of patriotic nationalism
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Women's literary salons and political propaganda during the Napoleonic era : the cradle of patriotic nationalism / Sharon Worley ; with a foreword by Gerard Gengembre.
ISBN
9780773438354
0773438351
Published
Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, c2009.
Physical Description
ix, 502 p., [40] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 05, 2010
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The salon as a political arena and the development of Germaine de Stael's literary theory
Gendered reconstruction of feminist authority in the Prince's Parlor: historicism and fiction in Stephanie Genlis' royalist politics; Juliette Recamier and Prince Augustus of Prussia in Genlis's Athenais
Hieroglyph and symbol: aesthetics and morality in the harmony of the spheres; the estate as icon and allegory of the state: literature, art collections, public monuments, and national identity; classical mythology and Christian iconography as moral signifiers
The Apollonian muse in Germaine de Stael's Corinne
Italian cultural patrimony and memories of revolution: the anti-Napoleonic Florence salon of Louise Stolberg and Germaine de Stael's Corinne
Germaine de Stael and Napoleon: resistance in antithesis; Napoleon and the cult of empire
Drama as political propaganda: de Stael's De l'Allemagne and the heroic archetype; romanticism as a definition of German character
Ethical aesthetics and national identity in Dorothea Schlegel's Florentin.
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