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Germaine de Staël: A Political Portrait
Biancamaria Fontana
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Description for Germaine de Staël: A Political Portrait
Hardback. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Germaine de Stael (1766-1817) is perhaps best known today as a novelist, literary critic, and outspoken and independent thinker. Yet she was also a prominent figure in politics during the French Revolution. Biancamaria Fontana sheds new light on this often overlooked aspect of Stael's life and work, bringing vividly to life her unique experience as a political actor in a world where women had no place. The banker's daughter who became one of Europe's best-connected intellectuals, Stael was an exceptionally talented woman who achieved a degree of public influence to which not even her wealth and privilege would normally ... Read more
Germaine de Stael (1766-1817) is perhaps best known today as a novelist, literary critic, and outspoken and independent thinker. Yet she was also a prominent figure in politics during the French Revolution. Biancamaria Fontana sheds new light on this often overlooked aspect of Stael's life and work, bringing vividly to life her unique experience as a political actor in a world where women had no place. The banker's daughter who became one of Europe's best-connected intellectuals, Stael was an exceptionally talented woman who achieved a degree of public influence to which not even her wealth and privilege would normally ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691169040
SKU
V9780691169040
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About Biancamaria Fontana
Biancamaria Fontana is professor of the history of political ideas at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. Her books include Montaigne's Politics (Princeton), Benjamin Constant and the Post-Revolutionary Mind, and Rethinking the Politics of Commercial Society.
Reviews for Germaine de Staël: A Political Portrait
[An] admirable study of Stael as a political thinker.
Robert Darnton, New York Review of Books This austere and serious study provides a fine, straightforward, anti-sensational discussion of political writings in which Stael appears as far more than the usually depicted adjunct of famous men.
Janet Todd, Times Literary Supplement This meticulously researched book provides an excellent examination ... Read more
Robert Darnton, New York Review of Books This austere and serious study provides a fine, straightforward, anti-sensational discussion of political writings in which Stael appears as far more than the usually depicted adjunct of famous men.
Janet Todd, Times Literary Supplement This meticulously researched book provides an excellent examination ... Read more