• List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Tableau Theory PART ONE: MUSIC AND LANGUAGE: LA QUERELLE DES BOUFFONS * Diderot and Musical Mimesis * Cazotte and Reader Re-creation * Beaumarchais's Staged Songs PART TWO: MUSIC AND MORALITY: LA QUERELLE DES FEMMES * Charriere's Exercises in Equivocation * Cottin, Krudener, and Musical Mesmerism * Stael's Sweet Revenge Afterward Notes Works Cited Index.
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French authors in the eighteenth century traditionally used music to enhance literary love scenes. Jean-Jacques Rousseau considerably expanded contemporary notions of music's expressive power, yet distinguished between the capacity of different nations and sexes to wield it. Rousseau's controversial statements led his readers to interrogate the relationship between music, meaning, and morality. They depicted their resistance to his claims in musical tableaux, or musical performances staged for a beholder inscribed within the text. Tili Boon Cuille's Narrative Interludes chronicles the emergence of the musical tableau in French literature. Spanning the latter half of the eighteenth century, Cuille brings the cultural discourse on music and musicians to bear on the works of Diderot, Cazotte, Beaumarchais, Charriere, Cottin, Krudener, and Stael. She turns attention from the representation of music to its moral repercussions, from aesthetic innovation to social resistance, and from national to gender politics. Juxtaposing pre-eminent and popular writers, Cuille reads their fictional works in light of their treatises on art and society, exploring the significance of musical tableaux that have previously fallen outside the scope of literary analysis but that revolutionized the form and function of music in the text.
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• List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Tableau Theory PART ONE: MUSIC AND LANGUAGE: LA QUERELLE DES BOUFFONS * Diderot and Musical Mimesis * Cazotte and Reader Re-creation * Beaumarchais's Staged Songs PART TWO: MUSIC AND MORALITY: LA QUERELLE DES FEMMES * Charriere's Exercises in Equivocation * Cottin, Krudener, and Musical Mesmerism * Stael's Sweet Revenge Afterward Notes Works Cited Index.
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French authors in the eighteenth century traditionally used music to enhance literary love scenes. Jean-Jacques Rousseau considerably expanded contemporary notions of music's expressive power, yet distinguished between the capacity of different nations and sexes to wield it. Rousseau's controversial statements led his readers to interrogate the relationship between music, meaning, and morality. They depicted their resistance to his claims in musical tableaux, or musical performances staged for a beholder inscribed within the text. Tili Boon Cuille's Narrative Interludes chronicles the emergence of the musical tableau in French literature. Spanning the latter half of the eighteenth century, Cuille brings the cultural discourse on music and musicians to bear on the works of Diderot, Cazotte, Beaumarchais, Charriere, Cottin, Krudener, and Stael. She turns attention from the representation of music to its moral repercussions, from aesthetic innovation to social resistance, and from national to gender politics. Juxtaposing pre-eminent and popular writers, Cuille reads their fictional works in light of their treatises on art and society, exploring the significance of musical tableaux that have previously fallen outside the scope of literary analysis but that revolutionized the form and function of music in the text.
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• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Setting the Stage Tili Boon Cuille Part I. The Politics of the Passions
• 1. The Mother, the Daughter, and the Passions Catherine Dubeau, translated by Sylvie Romanowski
• 2. The Virtuous "Passion": The Politics of Pity in Stael's The Influence of the Passions Nanette Le Coat
• 3. Passions, Politics, and Literature: The Quest for Happiness Christine Dunn Henderson
• 4. Melancholy in the Pursuit of Happiness: Corinne and the Femme Superieure Karen de Bruin Part II. International Aesthetics
• 5. The Peripheral Heroine Takes Center Stage: From Owenson's National Tale to Stael's European Genre M. Ione Crummy
• 6. Ethnography and Autoethnography in Corinne ou l'Italie Jennifer Law-Sullivan
• 7. Liquid Union: Listening through Tears and the Creation of Community in Corinne Lauren Fortner Ravalico
• 8. Aeolian Translation: The Aesthetics of Mediation and the Jouissance of Genre C.C. Wharram
• 9. British Legacies of Corinne and the Commercialization of Enthusiasm Kari Lokke Part III. Philosophy and the Arts
• 10. The Power to Corrupt: A Staelian Perspective on the Fine Arts Susan Tenenbaum
• 11. The Many Faces of Germaine de Stael Mary D. Sheriff
• 12. Stael, Corinne, and the Women Collectors of Napoleonic Europe Heather Belnap Jensen
• 13. Germaine de Stael Defines Romanticism, or the Analogy of the Glass Harmonica Fabienne Moore
• 14. Between Ideal and Performance: Corinne in Female-Authored Singer Narratives of the 1830s Julia Effertz Bibliography Index About the Contributors.
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Sensibility, or the capacity to feel, played a vital role in philosophical reflection about the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the arts in eighteenth-century France. Yet scholars have privileged the Marquis de Sade's vindication of physiological sensibility as the logical conclusion of Enlightenment over Germaine de Stael's exploration of moral sensibility's potential for reform and renewal that paved the way for Romanticism. This volume of essays showcases Stael's contribution to the "affective revolution" in Europe, investigating the personal and political circumstances that informed her theory of the passions and the social and aesthetic innovations to which it gave rise. Contributors move seamlessly between her political, philosophical, and fictional works, attentive to the relationship between emotion and cognition and aware of the coherence of her thought on an individual, national, and international scale. They first examine the significance Stael attributed to pity, happiness, melancholy, and enthusiasm in The Influence of the Passions as she witnessed revolutionary strife and envisioned the new republic. They then explore her development of a cosmopolitan aesthetic, in such works as On Literature, Corinne, or Italy, On Germany, and The Spirit of Translation, that transcended traditional generic, national, and linguistic boundaries. Finally, they turn to her contributions to the visual and musical arts as she deftly negotiated the transition from a Neoclassical to a Romantic aesthetic. Stael's Philosophy of the Passions concludes that, rather than founding a republic based on the rights of man, Stael's reflection fostered international communities of women (artists, models, and collectors; authors, performers, and spectators), enabling them to participate in the re-articulation of sociocultural values in the wake of the French Revolution. Contributors: Tili Boon Cuille, Catherine Dubeau, Nanette Le Coat, Christine Dunn Henderson, Karen de Bruin, M. Ione Crummy, Jennifer Law-Sullivan, Lauren Fortner Ravalico, C. C. Wharram, Kari Lokke, Susan Tenenbaum, Mary D. Sheriff, Heather Belnap Jensen, Fabienne Moore, Julia Effertz.
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