Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Author's note
- Introduction
- 1 Birth of a nation – Staël's Romantic Germany in 1810
- 2 Romantic literature and politics
- 3 Philosophy and ethics in Napoleonic Europe
- 4 Religion, love, enthusiasm – a new Enlightenment
- Conclusion
- Appendix: De l'Allemagne titles and dates
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in French
Appendix: De l'Allemagne titles and dates
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Author's note
- Introduction
- 1 Birth of a nation – Staël's Romantic Germany in 1810
- 2 Romantic literature and politics
- 3 Philosophy and ethics in Napoleonic Europe
- 4 Religion, love, enthusiasm – a new Enlightenment
- Conclusion
- Appendix: De l'Allemagne titles and dates
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in French
Summary
De l'Allemagne's bibliographical history is considerably more complex than was imagined. Word limits restrict me here to a few brief details.
7 November 1803 littérature métaphysique. ‘Je voulais dire par ma littérature métaphysique que j'écrirais à M. Su[ard] ce que j'observerais en Allemagne’; to Hochet, CG v. i, 98.
15 November 1803 Journal sur l'Allemagne; first Germany text. Title of Staël's journal, begun that day in Frankfurt (JA 27). A copy survives.
16–21 January 1804 Voyage littéraire d'Allemagne. Staël to Goethe, CG v. i, 199, 218; compare JA 45.
8 July 1808 Lettres sur l'Allemagne; manuscript A begun. ‘J'ai déjà fait coudre un cahier pour mes lettres sur l'Allemagne et j'ai écrit dix lignes que je relis avec une sorte de peur’; Staël to the Prince de Ligne, in Balayé, Lumières et liberté 159. This title also heads De l'Allemagne's manuscript A; manuscript B is untitled, and the final title first appears on the final C manuscript (undated). This information is new.
2 January 1809 Staël mentions ‘mes lettres sur l'Allemagne’; Lettres Staël-Meister, 203. On 23 September 1808, Voght writes to Mme Récamier, ‘Corinne écrit des lettres délicieuses à l'occasion de l'Allemagne.’ This letter has been misdated to 1809: both were then guests at Coppet. Mme Récamier was away in the summer of 1808, hence the letter.
13 May 1809 Manuscript B begun. This manuscript is headed ‘13 may’, words not recorded in 1958.
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- The Birth of European RomanticismTruth and Propaganda in Staël's 'De l'Allemagne', 1810–1813, pp. 222 - 223Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994