It was through Stael's best-seller De l'Allemagne that the term 'Romanticism', coined in Germany, reached Europe and America. Around this term, Stael built a new and universal agenda: her manifesto offered Napoleon's Europe an alternative to everything he stood for. The new universe she revealed helped to bury the neo-Classical world and to shape the nineteenth century. In this important work, Dr Isbell reasserts Stael's place in history and analyses her vast agenda, which covers every Classical and Romantic divide in art, philosophy, religion, and society from 1789 to 1815. This investigation sheds light upon the two different revolutions that created modern Europe, seen here by a leader of both.

An important study of the book which invented European Romanticism, Stael's De l'Allemagne.
Reviews
"The importance of Mme. de Stael's De l'Allemagne can scarcely be questioned." Monatshefte
"This is an important book that will undoubtedly encourgae debate across the spectrum of romantic criticism....The Birth of European Romaticism has great appeal to a wide general public as well as to specialists in the area." Philip Mellen, Germanic Notes and Reviews



Book Information
ISBN 9780521433594
Author John Claiborne Isbell
Format Hardback
Page Count 288
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 465g
Dimensions(mm) 224mm * 143mm * 21mm