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Stael’s Philosophy of the Passions
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Sensibility, Society and the Sister Arts
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Artikel-Nr:
9781611484731
Veröffentl:
2012
Seiten:
436
Autor:
Tili Boon Cuillé
Serie:
Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
eBook Typ:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
This volume examines the philosophical, political, and personal convictions that informed Staël’s theory of the passions and the social and aesthetic innovations to which it gave rise. Moving from her affective theory to her literary practice, we explore Staël’s transformative influence on the communities of women artists she fostered.
Sensibility, or the capacity to feel, played a vital role in philosophical reflection about the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the arts in eighteenth-century France. Yet scholars have privileged the Marquis de Sade’s vindication of physiological sensibility as the logical conclusion of Enlightenment over Germaine de Staël’s exploration of moral sensibility’s potential for reform and renewal that paved the way for Romanticism. This volume of essays showcases Staël’s contribution to the “affective revolution” in Europe, investigating the personal and political circumstances that informed her theory of the passions and the social and aesthetic innovations to which it gave rise. Contributors move seamlessly between her political, philosophical, and fictional works, attentive to the relationship between emotion and cognition and aware of the coherence of her thought on an individual, national, and international scale. They first examine the significance Staël attributed to pity, happiness, melancholy, and enthusiasm in The Influence of the Passions as she witnessed revolutionary strife and envisioned the new republic. They then explore her development of a cosmopolitan aesthetic, in such works as On Literature, Corinne, or Italy, On Germany, and The Spirit of Translation, that transcended traditional generic, national, and linguistic boundaries. Finally, they turn to her contributions to the visual and musical arts as she deftly negotiated the transition from a Neoclassical to a Romantic aesthetic. Staël’s Philosophy of the Passions concludes that, rather than founding a republic based on the rights of man, Staël’s reflection fostered international communities of women (artists, models, and collectors; authors, performers, and spectators), enabling them to participate in the re-articulation of sociocultural values in the wake of the French Revolution.
Contributors: Tili Boon Cuillé, Catherine Dubeau, Nanette Le Coat, Christine Dunn Henderson, Karen de Bruin, M. Ione Crummy, Jennifer Law-Sullivan, Lauren Fortner Ravalico, C. C. Wharram, Kari Lokke, Susan Tenenbaum, Mary D. Sheriff, Heather Belnap Jensen, Fabienne Moore, Julia Effertz
Contributors: Tili Boon Cuillé, Catherine Dubeau, Nanette Le Coat, Christine Dunn Henderson, Karen de Bruin, M. Ione Crummy, Jennifer Law-Sullivan, Lauren Fortner Ravalico, C. C. Wharram, Kari Lokke, Susan Tenenbaum, Mary D. Sheriff, Heather Belnap Jensen, Fabienne Moore, Julia Effertz
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Setting the Stage
Tili Boon Cuillé
Part I. The Politics of the Passions
1. The Mother, the Daughter, and the Passions
Catherine Dubeau, translated by Sylvie Romanowski
2. The Virtuous "Passion": The Politics of Pity in Staël's The Influence of the Passions
Nanette Le Coat
3. Passions, Politics, and Literature: The Quest for Happiness
Christine Dunn Henderson
4. Melancholy in the Pursuit of Happiness: Corinne and the Femme Supérieure
Karen de Bruin
Part II. International Aesthetics
5. The Peripheral Heroine Takes Center Stage: From Owenson’s National Tale to Staël’s European Genre
M. Ione Crummy
6. Ethnography and Autoethnography in Corinne ou l’Italie
Jennifer Law-Sullivan
7. Liquid Union: Listening through Tears and the Creation of Community in Corinne
Lauren Fortner Ravalico
8. Aeolian Translation: The Aesthetics of Mediation and the Jouissance of Genre
C.C. Wharram
9. British Legacies of Corinne and the Commercialization of Enthusiasm
Kari Lokke
Part III. Philosophy and the Arts
10. The Power to Corrupt: A Staëlian Perspective on the Fine Arts
Susan Tenenbaum
11. The Many Faces of Germaine de Staël
Mary D. Sheriff
12. Staël, Corinne, and the Women Collectors of Napoleonic Europe
Heather Belnap Jensen
13. Germaine de Staël Defines Romanticism, or the Analogy of the Glass Harmonica
Fabienne Moore
14. Between Ideal and Performance: Corinne in Female-Authored Singer Narratives of the 1830s
Julia Effertz
Bibliography
Index
About the Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Setting the Stage
Tili Boon Cuillé
Part I. The Politics of the Passions
1. The Mother, the Daughter, and the Passions
Catherine Dubeau, translated by Sylvie Romanowski
2. The Virtuous "Passion": The Politics of Pity in Staël's The Influence of the Passions
Nanette Le Coat
3. Passions, Politics, and Literature: The Quest for Happiness
Christine Dunn Henderson
4. Melancholy in the Pursuit of Happiness: Corinne and the Femme Supérieure
Karen de Bruin
Part II. International Aesthetics
5. The Peripheral Heroine Takes Center Stage: From Owenson’s National Tale to Staël’s European Genre
M. Ione Crummy
6. Ethnography and Autoethnography in Corinne ou l’Italie
Jennifer Law-Sullivan
7. Liquid Union: Listening through Tears and the Creation of Community in Corinne
Lauren Fortner Ravalico
8. Aeolian Translation: The Aesthetics of Mediation and the Jouissance of Genre
C.C. Wharram
9. British Legacies of Corinne and the Commercialization of Enthusiasm
Kari Lokke
Part III. Philosophy and the Arts
10. The Power to Corrupt: A Staëlian Perspective on the Fine Arts
Susan Tenenbaum
11. The Many Faces of Germaine de Staël
Mary D. Sheriff
12. Staël, Corinne, and the Women Collectors of Napoleonic Europe
Heather Belnap Jensen
13. Germaine de Staël Defines Romanticism, or the Analogy of the Glass Harmonica
Fabienne Moore
14. Between Ideal and Performance: Corinne in Female-Authored Singer Narratives of the 1830s
Julia Effertz
Bibliography
Index
About the Contributors