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Article: The painful birth of the Romantic heroine: Stael as political animal, 1786-1818. (Madame de Stael)
- Article from:
- The Romanic Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
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1. On a raison d'exclure les femmes des affaires politiques et civiles. Stael, 1810.
2. Depuis la Revolution, les hommes ont pense qu'il etait politiquement et moralement utile de reduire les femmes a la plus absurde mediocrite. Stael, 1800(1).
One author, two verdicts. What is going on? This paper argues that Stael chose art only when banned by men from politics, under Napoleon in particular. The "Romantic heroine" her life and works handed to posterity was a fallback position, used by a woman exiled from the Revolutionary stage. Stael's complete works make this clear, splitting into four periods.
1. Ancien Regime.
Born in 1766, Stael ...