Politics, Literature and National Character

by Germaine de Staël-Holstein and Morroe Berger

Book Overview

Madame Germaine de Stael is often regarded as the "mistress to an age", or (like England and Russia) one of the three great European "powers" of the 19th century. She was in some sense both, but she was also an important and influential writer whose works, astonishingly, have not, until this volume, been translated into English since the early 19th century. She absorbed the leading ideas of the Enlightenment on literature, politics, science and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138530417
• ISBN13: 9781138530416
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"