TEN YEARS’ EXILE
Part The First
CHAPTER 1.
Causes of Bonaparte’s animosity against me.
It is not with the view of occupying the public attention
with what relates to myself, that I have de...
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The French-Swiss woman of letters and novelist Germaine de Staël [full name Anne Louise Germaine Necker, Baronne de Staël-Holstein, historically referred to as Madame de Staël] (1766-18...
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Germaine de Staël was born into a time of stormy change, and she suffered the buffetings, in her life and in her writings, of its contradictory impulses. Her figure and her work acquire enhanced ...
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Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël-Holstein's impact on nineteenth-century theater comes above all from De l'Allemagne (1810-1813; translated as Germany, 1813), to which later Romantic drama theory (S...
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