Table of Contents

Introduction by Germaine Bree
The Nineteenth Century: Insights of Contemporary Women Writers (Bettina Von Arnim, Mary Wollstonecraft, Flora Tristan) by Marie Claire Hoock-Demarle
Woman as Mediatrix: From Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Germaine de Stael by Madelyn Gutwirth
Mme de Stael and the Position of Women in France, England and Germany by Eve Sourian
Corinne and the "Yankee Corinna": Mme de Stael and Margaret Fuller by Paula Blanchard
George Sand's View of the English by Patricia Thompson
Trollope's Choice: Frances Trollope Reads George Sand by Marie-Jacque Hoog
George Sand and Marionettes by Julia Frey
Musset's Lorenzaccio: George Sand's Ultimate Gift by Alex Szooyi
Frederika Bremer: Sweden's First Feminist by Doris Asmundsson
An Introduction to the Life and Times of Louise Otto by Ruth Ellen Boetcher Joeres
Annette Van Droste-Bulshoff and Critics of "Die Judenbuche" by Maruta Lietina-Ray
Towards a New Freedom: Rachel Varhagen and the German Women Writers Before 1848 by Doris Starr Guilloton
A Nigilistka and a Communarde: Two Voices of the Nineteenth Century Russian Intelligentka by Isabelle Naginski
Juliette Adam: She Devil or Grande Francaise? by Jean Scammon Hyland and Daniel H. Thomas
About the Contributors

About the Author

AVRIEL H. GOLDBERGER is Professor and Chairman of the French Department at Hofstra University.

Reviews

?A companion volume to Nineteenth-Century Women Writers of the English-Speaking World ... this collection of 15 essays focuses on European women writers, predominantly Madame de Stael and George Sand, but also such leser-known figures as Sweden's Fredrika Bremer and Germany's Louise Otto. Both collections are proceedings from a 1980 Hofstra University Conference on Nineteenth-Century Women Writers. As might be expected with this type of collection, the quality of the essays is uneven, but most offer valuable historical information and some helpful critical insights into the work of writers who are not well enough known in the US. The emphasis and orientation of the essays is feminist; the approaches to these authors are more historical than theoretical. Scholars writing on American authors will be interested in the influence of these European women on American literature. Madelyn Gutwirth's article Women as Mediatrix, ' which discusses de Stael's subversion of Rousseau's Julie in her novel Corinne, is particularly astute and has widespread implications for feminist critics. Levels: graduate and upper-division undergraduate.?-Choice

"A companion volume to Nineteenth-Century Women Writers of the English-Speaking World ... this collection of 15 essays focuses on European women writers, predominantly Madame de Stael and George Sand, but also such leser-known figures as Sweden's Fredrika Bremer and Germany's Louise Otto. Both collections are proceedings from a 1980 Hofstra University Conference on Nineteenth-Century Women Writers. As might be expected with this type of collection, the quality of the essays is uneven, but most offer valuable historical information and some helpful critical insights into the work of writers who are not well enough known in the US. The emphasis and orientation of the essays is feminist; the approaches to these authors are more historical than theoretical. Scholars writing on American authors will be interested in the influence of these European women on American literature. Madelyn Gutwirth's article Women as Mediatrix, ' which discusses de Stael's subversion of Rousseau's Julie in her novel Corinne, is particularly astute and has widespread implications for feminist critics. Levels: graduate and upper-division undergraduate."-Choice