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It was through Staël'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 Staël'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 Stadl's 'de L'allemagne', 1810-1813', published 2006 under ISBN 9780521032001 and ISBN 0521032008.
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