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Reflections of the Trial of a Queen, by a Woman

LORI J. MARSO (ESSAY DATE SPRING 2002)

SOURCE: Marso, Lori J. "Defending the Queen: Wollstonecraft and Staël on the Politics of Sensibility and Feminine Difference." The Eighteenth Century 43, no. 1 (spring 2002): 43-60.

In the following excerpt, Marso analyzes de Staël's Reflections on the Trial of a Queen, by a Woman discussing how she negotiates the politics of sense and sensibility and uses a masculine model to offer a notion of the female self.

I shall therefore only speak of that verdict, analyzing the political, in telling what I have seen, what I know of the queen, and in depicting the hideous circumstances which have led to her condemnation.¹ GERMAINE DE STAËL, Reflections on the Trial of the Queen, by a Woman....

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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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