Journal article
Melancholy, Trauma, and National Character: Mme de Staël's Considérations sur les principaux événements de la Révolution française
Studies in romanticism, Vol.49(2), pp.261-292
07/01/2010
DOI: 10.1353/srm.2010.0028
Abstract
The contrast between a somber English liberty rooted in a gloomy climate and rational judgment and a vainglorious French servility reduced to instinct by a less demanding atmosphere and the studied pleasantries of wit and manners may be found in a host of writings on both sides of the Channel from at least the later decades of the seventeenth century.2 Cowper's verses follow the lead of Thomson, Collins, and Gray in yoking the melancholic moralizing of the solitary wanderer to a defense of commercial and political liberty, legitimizing progressive history and constitutional monarchy in the language of national character.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Melancholy, Trauma, and National Character: Mme de Staël's Considérations sur les principaux événements de la Révolution française
- Creators
- Eric Gidal
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Studies in romanticism, Vol.49(2), pp.261-292
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- DOI
- 10.1353/srm.2010.0028
- ISSN
- 0039-3762
- eISSN
- 2330-118X
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/01/2010
- Academic Unit
- International Programs; English
- Record Identifier
- 9984397925402771
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