WorkGermaine de Staël
Corinne, ou l'Italie (Paris: Nicolle, 1807)
Germaine de Staël (1766–1817) · 1807
AnalyzedReadMentioned
Documented 1834–1842
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
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“Me de Staël, à moi, approaches the truth in her remarks on the nature of Tasso's imagination Corinne 2d vol's.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
“I never had the feeling I dreaded, of display, of a paid Corinne.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
“There is no picture except one of De Recamier herself as Corinne, this is absurd. … You imagine her to have been reading one of De Stael's books.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal Fragments, 1842." Margaret Fuller Family Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University.
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“and Madame de Stael, though not deep is tasteful.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Fuller names Madame de Staël in the context of reading about Italy, commenting that her work, "though not deep is tasteful." Hudspeth identified this as de Staël's novel Corinne; ou, L'Italie (1807), a celebrated novel set in Italy and a key text for contemporary readers interested in Italian art and landscape.
“never had the feeling I dreaded, of display, of a paid Corinne.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.
Inferred In this passage, Margaret Fuller references Germaine de Staël's seminal novel Corinne, ou l'Italie (1807). The heroine, Corinne, served as a potent cultural touchstone for educated women of Fuller's era, embodying the image of a brilliant female artist performing for an audience.