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Corinne

ARMINE KOTIN MORTIMER (ESSAY DATE 1992)

SOURCE: Kotin Mortimer, Armine. "Male and Female Plots in Staël's Corinne. "In Studies in Literature, History, and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century France: Selected Proceedings of the Sixteenth Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, edited by Keith Busby, pp. 149-56. Amsterdam: CIP-Gegevens Koninklijke, 1992.

In the following excerpt, Kotin Mortimer explores the male subjugation of the fallen woman in Corinne.

Through the fictive transcription of her artistic personality in the character of Corinne, Germaine de Staël addressed a vindictive reproach to any man who failed to give due consideration to her genius.¹ She plotted to kill her heroine, and to blame her death on Lord Oswald Nelvil, an amalgam of several real men in Staël's circle who, in Madelyn Gutwirth's...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Primary Sources
   1. Germaine De StaëL (Essay Date 1810)
4. General Commentary
   1. Ellen Moers (Essay Date Spring 1975)
5. Title Commentary
   1. Reflections of the Trial of a Queen, by a Woman
   2. Corinne
6. Further Reading
7. Copyright

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