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- Staël, Romanticism and Revolution
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
- Staël, Romanticism and Revolution
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Painful Birth of the Romantic Heroine
- Chapter 2 Revolution and the Private Sphere
- Chapter 3 Madame de Staël, Minister for War?
- Chapter 4 The Social Contract for Staël and Constant, or Does Liberty Have a Sex?
- Chapter 5 When the Light of Reason Fails
- Chapter 6 Imaginary Europe
- Chapter 7 Suicide, Meaning, and Power in the Querelle of Delphine
- Chapter 8 My Father, Myself
- Chapter 9 Italy, or Corinne
- Chapter 10 Interlude
- Chapter 11 Napoleon Pulps His Enemies
- Chapter 12 The Napoleon Apocalypse
- Chapter 13 Romantic Spain and National Resistance
- Chapter 14 A. W. Schlegel, Staël, and Sismondi in 1814
- Chapter 15 The Italian Romantics and Madame de Staël
- Chapter 16 Inventing the French Revolution
- Chapter 17 Voices Lost?
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Chapter 14 - A. W. Schlegel, Staël, and Sismondi in 1814
The Groupe de Coppet and the Confédération romantique
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 August 2023
- Staël, Romanticism and Revolution
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
- Staël, Romanticism and Revolution
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Painful Birth of the Romantic Heroine
- Chapter 2 Revolution and the Private Sphere
- Chapter 3 Madame de Staël, Minister for War?
- Chapter 4 The Social Contract for Staël and Constant, or Does Liberty Have a Sex?
- Chapter 5 When the Light of Reason Fails
- Chapter 6 Imaginary Europe
- Chapter 7 Suicide, Meaning, and Power in the Querelle of Delphine
- Chapter 8 My Father, Myself
- Chapter 9 Italy, or Corinne
- Chapter 10 Interlude
- Chapter 11 Napoleon Pulps His Enemies
- Chapter 12 The Napoleon Apocalypse
- Chapter 13 Romantic Spain and National Resistance
- Chapter 14 A. W. Schlegel, Staël, and Sismondi in 1814
- Chapter 15 The Italian Romantics and Madame de Staël
- Chapter 16 Inventing the French Revolution
- Chapter 17 Voices Lost?
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Summary
Chapter 14 reviews the texts published in French in 1814 by A. W. Schlegel, Staël, and Sismondi – core members of the Groupe de Coppet – which led to them being dubbed a confédération romantique. The texts furnish a Romantic dialectic and a vision of the new man for the various anti-classical reactions playing out in Europe over the previous fifty years. Schlegel offers Shakespeare and arguments to reject France, Staël proposes Faust and Kant, and in Sismondi, finally, one finds a free Middle Ages opposing that of Chateaubriand. But the three also offer an idea of the nation that seems as influential as their literary ideas, and tools to transform the Europe of the nineteenth century. These writers elaborate a new Europe of the imagination to confront the dead Europe of the Emperor. Romanticism is vast, and these texts are distinguished above all by the immense scope of the subjects they treat.
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- Staël, Romanticism and RevolutionThe Life and Times of the First European, pp. 151 - 172Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023