Contents
1The Painful Birth of the Romantic Heroine: Staël as Political Animal, 1786–1821
2Revolution and the Private Sphere: Lettres sur Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Zulma, Recueil de morceaux détachés, 1786–1795
3Madame de Staël, Minister for War? Narbonne’s “English” Program under the Assemblée législative
4The Social Contract for Staël and Constant, or Does Liberty Have a Sex?
5When the Light of Reason Fails: De l’influence des passions sur le bonheur des individus et des nations, 1796
6Imaginary Europe: De la littérature considérée dans ses rapports avec les institutions sociales, 1800
11Napoleon Pulps His Enemies: Censors, Police, and De l’Allemagne’s Lost 1810 Edition
13Romantic Spain and National Resistance: Staël, Rocca, and the Mémoires sur la guerre des Français en Espagne
14A. W. Schlegel, Staël, and Sismondi in 1814: The Groupe de Coppet and the Confédération romantique
15The Italian Romantics and Madame de Staël: Art, Society, and Nationhood
16Inventing the French Revolution: Staël Considers National Credit, 1789–1818