Germaine de Stael
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, works and life of Germaine de Stael (1766-1817), a literary critic, author, opponent of Napoleon and developer of Romanticism.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and impact of Germaine de Sta毛l (1766-1817) who Byron praised as Europe's greatest living writer, and was at the heart of intellectual and literary life in the France of revolution and of Napoleon. As well as attracting and inspiring others in her salon, she wrote novels, plays. literary criticism, political essays, and poems and developed the ideas behind Romanticism. She achieved this while regularly exiled from the Paris in which she was born, having fallen out with Napoleon who she opposed, becoming a towering figure in the history of European ideas.
With
Catriona Seth, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford
Alison Finch, Professor Emerita of French Literature at the University of Cambridge
and
Katherine Astbury, Associate Professor and Reader in French Studies at the University of Warwick.
Producer: Simon Tillotson.
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LINKS AND FURTHER READING
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READING LIST:
John Claireborne Isbell, The Birth of European Romanticism: Truth and Propaganda in Sta毛l鈥檚 鈥楧e l鈥橝llemagne鈥�, 1810-1813 (Cambridge University Press, 1994)
Michael Ferber, Romanticism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2010)
Alison Finch, French Literature: A Cultural History (Polity, 2010)
Alison Finch, Women鈥檚 Writing in Nineteenth-Century France (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
Biancamaria Fontana, Germaine de Sta毛l: A Political Portrait (Princeton University Press, 2016)
Genevi猫ve Fraisse and Michelle Perrot (eds.), A History of Women in the West (vol 4): Emerging Feminism from Revolution to World War (Belknap Press, 1993)
Linda Kelly, Juniper Hall: An English Refuge from the French Revolution (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1991)
Christopher Prendergast (ed.), A History of Modern French Literature (Princeton University Press, 2017), especially 鈥榃omen鈥檚 Voices in Enlightenment France鈥� by Catriona Seth
Germaine de Sta毛l (trans. Avriel H. Goldberger), Delphine (first published 1802; Northern Illinois University Press, 1995)
Germaine de Sta毛l (trans. Sylvia Raphael), Corinne or Italy (first published 1807; Oxford University Press, 2008)
Germaine de Sta毛l (ed. Aurelian Craiutu), Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution (Liberty Fund, 2008)
Maria Fairweather, Madame de Sta毛l (Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2005)
Renee Winegarten, Germaine de Sta毛l & Benjamin Constant: A Dual Biography (Yale University Press, 2008)
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Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Melvyn Bragg |
| Interviewed Guest | Catriona Seth |
| Interviewed Guest | Alison Finch |
| Interviewed Guest | Katherine Astbury |
| Producer | Simon Tillotson |
Broadcasts
- Thu 16 Nov 2017 09:00成人快手 Radio 4
- Thu 16 Nov 2017 21:30成人快手 Radio 4
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