Delphine

by Germaine de Staël-Holstein and Madame de Staël

Book Overview

Germaine de Sta\u00ebl's first major novel, Delphine, published in 1802, is a profound commentary on the status of women during a critical period of French political history. Delphine's eighteenth-century conventional form as an epistolary novel masks its unconventional questioning of accepted values and norms.

From the start, the Napoleonic government understood that Delphine was more than just a tale of tragic love. Though Sta\u00ebl...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875805671
• ISBN13: 9780875805672
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 511 Pages
• Weight: 1.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher