Women's literary salons and political propaganda during the Napoleonic era
Subtitle: the cradle of patriotic nationalism
By: Sharon Worley ; with a foreword by Gerard Gengembre.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780773438354
Subjects: Napoleon -- I, -- Emperor of the French, -- 1769-1821 -- In literature; Staël, Madame de -- 1766-1817 -- Criticism and interpretation; European literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- Europe -- History -- 18th century; Women and literature -- Europe -- History -- 19th century; Salons -- Europe -- History; Women -- Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century; Women -- Europe -- Intellectual life -- 19th century; Nationalism and literature -- Europe -- History -- 18th century; Nationalism and literature -- Europe -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The salon as a political arena and the development of Germaine de Stael's literary theory; title: 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; title: 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; title: The Apollonian muse in Germaine de Stael's Corinne; title: Italian cultural patrimony and memories of revolution: the anti-Napoleonic Florence salon of Louise Stolberg and Germaine de Stael's Corinne; title: Germaine de Stael and Napoleon: resistance in antithesis; Napoleon and the cult of empire; title: Drama as political propaganda: de Stael's De l'Allemagne and the heroic archetype; romanticism as a definition of German character; title: Ethical aesthetics and national identity in Dorothea Schlegel's Florentin.