CRITICISM

Borowitz, Helen O. “The Unconfessed Précieuse: Madame de Staël's Debt to Mademoiselle de Scudéry.” In Nineteenth-Century French Studies 11, Nos. 1 & 2 (Fall-Winter 1982-83): 32-59.

Explores de Staël's use of Mlle de Scudéry's literary self-portrait as a model for her fictional heroine Corinne.

Bruschini, Enrico and Alba Amoia. “Rome's Monuments and Artistic Treasures in Mme de Staël's Corinne (1807): Then and Now.” In Nineteenth-Century French Studies 22, Nos. 3 & 4 (Spring-Summer 1994): 311-47.

Considers Corinne as a “novel-cum-guidebook” to Italian travel.

DeJean, Joan. “Staël's Corinne: The Novel's Other Dilemma.” In Stanford French Review XI (Spring 1987): 77-87.

Examines de Staël's adoption of the patriarchal third-person perspective and rejection of the first-person, conversational form in Corinne.

Deneys-Tunney, Anne. “Corinne by Madame de Staël: The Utopia of Feminine Voice as Music within the Novel.” In Dalhousie French Studies 28 (Fall 1994): 55-63.

Discusses the crisis of the feminine voice portrayed in Corinne.

Goldberger, Avriel H. “Introduction.” In Corinne, or Italy, by Madame de Staël, translated and edited by Avriel H. Goldberger, pp. xv-liv. New Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers University Press, 1987.

Surveys de Staël's life and analyzes Corinne, calling it “one of the three most important novels of early French Romanticism.”

———. “Germaine de Staël's Corinne: Challenges to the Translator in the 1980s. In The French Review 63, No. 5 (April 1990): 800-09.

Summarizes the problems associated with twentieth-century translation of Corinne.

Higonnet, Margaret R. “Madame de Staël and Schelling.” In Comparative Literature 38, No. 2 (Spring 1986): 159-80.

Probes de Staël's adaptation of German Idealist philosophy for a French audience in De l’Allemagne.

Lind, L. R. “Madame de Staël and the Battle of the Books.” In Classical and Modern Literature 14, No. 1 (Fall 1994): 7-24.

Comments on de Staël's view of the relative merits of classic versus modern literature, including her greater sympathies with the latter.

Mortimer, Armine Kotin. “Male and Female Plots in Staël's Corinne.” In Correspondances: Studies in Literature, History, and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century France, edited by Keith Busby, pp. 149-55. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1992.

Concentrates on male subjugation of the fallen woman in de Staël's Corinne.

Nash, Suzanne. “De l’Allemagne and the Creation of a French Germany.” In The Shaping of the Text: Style, Imagery, and Structure in French Literature: Essays in Honor of John Porter Houston, edited by Emanuel J. Mickel Jr., pp. 80-87. Cranbury, N. J.: Associated University Presses, 1993.

Recounts de Staël's “myth of a liberal Germany” in De l’Allemagne and its effect on subsequent French intellectual history.

Pacini, Giulia. “Hidden Politics in Germaine de Staël's Corinne ou l’Italie.” In French Forum 24, No. 2 (May 1999): 163-77.

Elucidates the “strong, yet subtle” critique of French politics in Corinne.

Peel, Ellen. “Contradictions of Form and Feminism in Corinne ou l’Italie.” In Essays in Literature XIV, No. 2 (Fall 1987): 281-98.

Analyzes patterns and oppositions in the feminism of de Staël's novel Corinne.

Vallois, Marie-Claire. “Voice as Fossil, Madame de Staël's Corinne or Italy: An Archaeology of Feminine Discourse.” In Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 6, No. 1 (Spring 1987): 47-60.

Interprets de Staël's use of passive and impersonal modes of narration in Corinne.

Additional coverage of de Staël's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 119 and 192.