We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 September 2009
De l'Allemagne's bibliographical history is considerably more complex than was imagined. Word limits restrict me here to a few brief details.
7 November 1803 littérature métaphysique. ‘Je voulais dire par ma littérature métaphysique que j'écrirais à M. Su[ard] ce que j'observerais en Allemagne’; to Hochet, CG v. i, 98.
15 November 1803 Journal sur l'Allemagne; first Germany text. Title of Staël's journal, begun that day in Frankfurt (JA 27). A copy survives.
16–21 January 1804 Voyage littéraire d'Allemagne. Staël to Goethe, CG v. i, 199, 218; compare JA 45.
8 July 1808 Lettres sur l'Allemagne; manuscript A begun. ‘J'ai déjà fait coudre un cahier pour mes lettres sur l'Allemagne et j'ai écrit dix lignes que je relis avec une sorte de peur’; Staël to the Prince de Ligne, in Balayé, Lumières et liberté 159. This title also heads De l'Allemagne's manuscript A; manuscript B is untitled, and the final title first appears on the final C manuscript (undated). This information is new.
2 January 1809 Staël mentions ‘mes lettres sur l'Allemagne’; Lettres Staël-Meister, 203. On 23 September 1808, Voght writes to Mme Récamier, ‘Corinne écrit des lettres délicieuses à l'occasion de l'Allemagne.’ This letter has been misdated to 1809: both were then guests at Coppet. Mme Récamier was away in the summer of 1808, hence the letter.
13 May 1809 Manuscript B begun. This manuscript is headed ‘13 may’, words not recorded in 1958.
To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.
Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.
