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Stael's philosophy of the passions sensibility, society, and the sister arts
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Our volume examines the philosophical, political, and personal convictions that informed Staël's theory of the passions and the social and aesthetic innovations to which it gave rise. Moving from h...
Our volume examines the philosophical, political, and personal convictions that informed Staël's theory of the passions and the social and aesthetic innovations to which it gave rise. Moving from her affective theory to her literary practice, we explore Staël's transformative influence on the communities of women artists she fostered. Her cosmopolitanism consisted in transcending traditional distinctions between emotion and cognition, pleasure and pain, genders and genres, languages and cultures, Classicism and Romanticism, melancholy and enthusiasm.
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- Creator
- edited by Tili Boon Cuille and Karyna Szmurlo
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Lanham, MD : Bucknell University Press, 2013
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (347 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781283940849, 1283940841, 9781611484731, 1611484731, 161148636X, 1611484723
- OCLC
- ocn826855526
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: SETTING THE STAGE; PartI. THE POLITICS OF THE PASSIONS; Ch01. THE MOTHER, THE DAUGHTER, AND THE PASSIONS; Ch02. THE VIRTUOUS PASSION: THE POLITICS OF PITY IN STAËL'S THE INFLUENCE OF THE PASSIONS; Ch03. PASSIONS, POLITICS, AND LITERATURE: THE QUEST FOR HAPPINESS; Ch04. MELANCHOLY IN THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS: CORINNE AND THE FEMME SUPÉRIEURE; PartII. INTERNATIONAL AESTHETICS; Ch05. THE PERIPHERAL HEROINE TAKES CENTER STAGE: FROM OWENSON'S NATIONAL TALE TO STAËL'S EUROPEAN GENRE
- Ch06. ETHNOGRAPHY AND AUTOETHNOGRAPHY: COSMOPOLITANISM IN CORINNE OU L'ITALIECh07. LIQUID UNION: LISTENING THROUGH TEARS AND THE CREATION OF COMMUNITY IN CORINNE; Ch08. AEOLIAN TRANSLATION: THE AESTHETICS OF MEDIATION AND THE JOUISSANCE OF GENRE; Ch09. BRITISH LEGACIES OF CORINNE AND THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF ENTHUSIASM; PartIII. PHILOSOPHY AND THE ARTS; Ch10. THE POWER TO CORRUPT: A STAËLIAN PERSPECTIVE ON THE FINE ARTS; Ch11. THE MANY FACES OF GERMAINE DE STAËL; Ch12. STAËL, CORINNE, AND THE WOMEN COLLECTORS OF NAPOLEONIC EUROPE
- Ch13. GERMAINE DE STAËL DEFINES ROMANTICISM, OR THE ANALOGY OF THE GLASS HARMONICACh14. BETWEEN IDEAL AND PERFORMANCE: CORINNE IN FEMALE-AUTHORED SINGER NARRATIVES OF THE 1830S; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS