كتاب
Germaine de Staël & Benjamin Constant: a dual biography
| العنوان: | Germaine de Staël & Benjamin Constant: a dual biography Germaine de Staël and Benjamin Constant |
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| المؤلفون: | Winegarten, Renee. |
| بيانات النشر: | New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008. |
| سنة النشر: | 2008 |
| وصف مادي: | 343 p. ; 22 cm. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Novelists, Swiss -- 19th century -- Biography., Intellectuals -- France -- Biography., Authors, French -- 19th century -- Biography., Women authors, French -- 19th century -- Biography., Women intellectuals -- France -- Biography. |
| Subject Person: | Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 1766-1817., Constant, Benjamin, 1767-1830. |
| الوصف: | "When they first met in 1794, shortly after the Reign of Terror, Germaine de Stael and Benjamin Constant were both in their twenties, both married, and both outsiders. She was already celebrated and a published writer, whereas he, though ambitious, was unknown. This dual biography tells the story of their union and disunion, set against a European background of momentous events and dramatic social and cultural change. Renee Winegarten offers new perspectives on each of the protagonists, revealing their rare qualities and their all-too-human failings as well as the complex nature of their debt to one another." "Their passionate and productive relationship endured on and off for seventeen years. Winegarten traces their story largely through their own words - letters and autobiographical writings - and illuminates the deep intellectual and visceral bond they shared despite disparate personalities and gifts. Exploring their relationships with Napoleon and the Bourbons, their different responses to the momentous upheavals of postrevolutionary France, their support of individual liberty with order, and more, the book concludes with an appreciation of de Stael's and Constant's singular contributions to a new literature and to the history of liberty."--Jacket. |
| Original Identifier: | ocn179832112 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-300-11925-1 0-300-11925-9 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references (319-326) and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.011487591.X |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
Full Text Finder | ردمك: | 9780300119251 0300119259 |
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