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EBOOK Madame de Stael:The Dangerous Exile
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191608117
EAN: 55E64D63EB
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Stron: 344
Data wydania: 2008
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How does exile beget writing, and writing exile? What kind of writing can both be        fuelled by absence and prolong it? Exile, which was meant to imprison her,        paradoxically gave Madame de Stal a freedom that enabled her to be as        active a dissident as any woman in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth        centuries was capable of being. Repeatedly banished for her nonconformism, she felt        she had been made to suffer twice over, first for political daring and then for        daring, as awoman, to be political (a particularly grave offence in the eyes of the        misogynist Napoleon). Yet her outspokenness - in novels, comparative literary        studies, and works of political and social theory - made her seem as much a threat        outside her beloved France as within it, while her friendship withstatesmen,        soldiers, and literary figures such as Byron, Fanny Burney, Goethe, and Schiller        simply added to her dangerous celebrity. She preached the virtues of liberalism and        freedom wherever she went, turning the experiences of her enforced absence into an        arsenal to use against all who tried to suppress her. Even Napoleon, perhaps her        greatest foe, conceded, from his own exile on St Helena that she would last. Her        unremitting activity as a speaker and writer made her into preciselythe sort of        activist no woman at that time was permitted to be; yet she paradoxically remained a        reluctant feminist, seeming even to connive at the inferior status society granted        her sex at the same time as vociferously challenging it, and remaining torn by the        conflicting demands of public and privatelife.

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