Book contents
- Staël, Romanticism and Revolution
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
- Staël, Romanticism and Revolution
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Painful Birth of the Romantic Heroine
- Chapter 2 Revolution and the Private Sphere
- Chapter 3 Madame de Staël, Minister for War?
- Chapter 4 The Social Contract for Staël and Constant, or Does Liberty Have a Sex?
- Chapter 5 When the Light of Reason Fails
- Chapter 6 Imaginary Europe
- Chapter 7 Suicide, Meaning, and Power in the Querelle of Delphine
- Chapter 8 My Father, Myself
- Chapter 9 Italy, or Corinne
- Chapter 10 Interlude
- Chapter 11 Napoleon Pulps His Enemies
- Chapter 12 The Napoleon Apocalypse
- Chapter 13 Romantic Spain and National Resistance
- Chapter 14 A. W. Schlegel, Staël, and Sismondi in 1814
- Chapter 15 The Italian Romantics and Madame de Staël
- Chapter 16 Inventing the French Revolution
- Chapter 17 Voices Lost?
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Chapter 12 - The Napoleon Apocalypse
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 August 2023
- Staël, Romanticism and Revolution
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
- Staël, Romanticism and Revolution
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Painful Birth of the Romantic Heroine
- Chapter 2 Revolution and the Private Sphere
- Chapter 3 Madame de Staël, Minister for War?
- Chapter 4 The Social Contract for Staël and Constant, or Does Liberty Have a Sex?
- Chapter 5 When the Light of Reason Fails
- Chapter 6 Imaginary Europe
- Chapter 7 Suicide, Meaning, and Power in the Querelle of Delphine
- Chapter 8 My Father, Myself
- Chapter 9 Italy, or Corinne
- Chapter 10 Interlude
- Chapter 11 Napoleon Pulps His Enemies
- Chapter 12 The Napoleon Apocalypse
- Chapter 13 Romantic Spain and National Resistance
- Chapter 14 A. W. Schlegel, Staël, and Sismondi in 1814
- Chapter 15 The Italian Romantics and Madame de Staël
- Chapter 16 Inventing the French Revolution
- Chapter 17 Voices Lost?
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Summary
Chapter 12 has two theses. The first is that Staël’s semi-autobiographical Dix années d’exil may be read as a hermetic text, hiding an apocalyptic vision with Napoleon as one of various demonic figures. This was common coin around 1814. The second is that Staël’s apocalyptic vision accords with another hidden theme of hers: that a sibyl is known by her prophecies. Her complete works bear unexpected testimony to this theme, as is here demonstrated. The chapter also traces Staël’s engagement with Russia, both in her Dix années and in various apocryphal or newly attributed texts.
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- Staël, Romanticism and RevolutionThe Life and Times of the First European, pp. 124 - 142Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023