Birth of European Romanticism Truth and Propaganda in Stael's 'De L'Allemagne', 1810-1813

It was through Stael's best-seller De l'Allemagne that the term 'Romanticism', coined in Germany, reached Europe and America. It offered Napoleon's Europe an alternative to everything he stood for, and helped shape the nineteenth century. Dr Isbell reasserts Stael's place in history and analyses her vast agenda, which covers every Classical and Romantic divide in art, philosophy, religion, and society from 1789 to 1815.Isbell, John Claiborne is the author of 'Birth of European Romanticism Truth and Propaganda in Stael's 'De L'Allemagne', 1810-1813' with ISBN 9780521433594 and ISBN 0521433592.