Madame de Stal - 9781108059862

Madame de StalHer Friends, and her Influence in Politics and Literature\nAuthor(s): Charlotte Blennerhassett, Jane Eliza Gordon Cumming\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108059862, 978-1108059862\nSynopsis\nAn accomplished biographer of figures ranging from Talleyrand to Cardinal Newman, Charlotte Blennerhassett [tel] originally published this three-volume study in German. Reissued here is the English translation of 1889 by J. E. Gordon Cumming. Madame de Stal [tel], an intellectual in Paris at the turn of the nineteenth century, was ranked by Auguste Comte as among the 'great men' of the era. A novelist, salonnire, literary and social critic, and follower of Rousseau, she became keenly involved in the opposition to Louis XVI. Volume 2 of Blennerhassett's authoritative study addresses Madame de Stal's life from the Revolution through to the first decade of the nineteenth century, examining the .