The mother, the daughter, and the passions / Catherine Dubeau -- The virtuous passion: the politics of pity in Staël's The influence of the passions / Nanette Le Coat -- Passions, politics, and literature: the quest for happiness / Christine Dunn Henderson -- Melancholy in the pursuit of happiness: Corinne and the Femme supérieure / Karen de Bruin -- The peripheral heroine takes center stage: from Owenson's national tale to Staël's European genre / M. Ione Crummy -- Ethnography and autoethnography: cosmopolitanism in Corinne, ou l'Italie / Jennifer Law-Sullivan -- Liquid union: listening through tears and the creation of community in Corinne / Lauren Fortner Ravalico -- Aeolian translation: the aesthetics of mediation and the jouissance of genre / C. C. Wharram -- British legacies of Corinne and the commercialization of enthusiasm / Kari Lokke -- The power to corrupt: a Staëlian perspective on the fine arts / Susan Tenenbaum -- The many faces of Germaine de Staël / Mary D. Sheriff -- Staël, Corinne, and the women collectors of Napoleonic Europe / Heather Belnap Jensen -- Germaine de Staël defines Romanticism or the analogy of the glass harmonica / Fabienne Moore -- Between ideal and performance: Corinne in female-authored singer narratives of the 1830s / Julia Effertz