1st Edition
Politics, Literature and National Character
384 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
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Madame Germaine de Stael is often regarded as the "mistress to an age", or (like England and Russia) one of the three great European "powers" of the 19th century. She was in some sense both, but she was also an important and influential writer whose works, astonishingly, have not, until this volume, been translated into English since the early 19th century. She absorbed the leading ideas of the... Read more
One: Political Power and its Uses; I: Napoleon: The Despot’s Way; II: The Requirements of Tolerance and Stability; III: Public Opinion: Its Power and Inertia; IV: The Superiority of Moderation over Extremism; Two: Literature; V: Literature Considered in Its Relation to Social Institutions; VI: Essay on Fiction; Three: National Character and Institutions; VII: On Germany; VIII: England; IX: Russia
Biography
Madame De Stael, Morroe Berger
