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Germaine de Staël & Benjamin Constant [[electronic resource] ] : a dual biography / / Renee Winegarten



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Autore: Winegarten Renee Visualizza persona
Titolo: Germaine de Staël & Benjamin Constant [[electronic resource] ] : a dual biography / / Renee Winegarten Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2008
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (352 p.)
Disciplina: 944.04092
Soggetto topico: Authors, French - 19th century
Intellectuals - France
Novelists, Swiss - 19th century
Women authors, French - 19th century
Women intellectuals - France
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (319-326) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1. A Chance Encounter -- 2. Prodigies -- 3. A Bold Throw -- 4. Enter the Hero -- 5. A New Order -- 6. Journey into the Unknown -- 7. Corinne and Adolphe -- 8. The Flight to Freedom -- 9. Reunion in Paris-and After -- 10. The Death of Corinne -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: When they first met in 1794, shortly after the Reign of Terror, Germaine de Staël and Benjamin Constant were both in their twenties, both married, and both outsiders. She was already celebrated and a published writer, whereas he, though ambitious, was unknown. This compelling dual biography tells the extraordinary story of their union and disunion, set against a European background of momentous events and dramatic social and cultural change. Renee Winegarten offers new perspectives on each of the protagonists, revealing their rare qualities and their all-too-human failings as well as the complex nature of their debt to one another. Their passionate and productive relationship endured on and off for seventeen years. Winegarten traces their story largely through their own words-letters and autobiographical writings-and illuminates the deep intellectual and visceral bond they shared despite disparate personalities and gifts. Exploring their relationships with Napoleon and the Bourbons, their different responses to the momentous upheavals of postrevolutionary France, their support of individual liberty with order, and more, the book concludes with an appreciation of de Staël's and Constant's singular contributions to a new literature and to the history of liberty.
Altri titoli varianti: Germaine de Staël and Benjamin Constant
Titolo autorizzato: Germaine de Staël & Benjamin Constant  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-300-17624-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910456357803321
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