The Birth of European Romanticism

It was through Stal''s bestseller De l''Allemagne that the term Romanticism coined in Germany reached Europe and America. Around this term Stal built a new and universal agenda: her manifesto offered Napoleon''s Europe an alternative to everything he stood for. In this ground-breaking work John Claiborne Isbell reasserts Stal''s place in history and analyzes her vast agenda which covers every Classical and Romantic divide in art philosophy religion and society from 1789 to 1815. This investigation sheds new light on the two different revolutions that created modern Europe as seen here by a leader of both.