Madame de Staël or the Necessity of a Second Life: The Theatre

Authors

  • Ramona Malița Faculty of Letters, West University of Timișoara

Keywords:

Madame de Staël, Coppet, Geneva, experimental theatre, French Romanticism, aesthetic and literary canons, 19th century literature, romantic theatre

Abstract

Our contribution proposes an incursion into literary history at the time of the First Wave of French Romanticism. The subject of the investigation is Madame de Staël’s experimental theatre and the dramatic seasons that she organized between 1804 and 1811 in Coppet and Geneva. Our conclusions are twofold:
on the aesthetic side, Coppet’s dramatic representations had the role of changing the aesthetic and literary canons of the early 19th century; on the historical side, the Coppet Group is one of the first romantic cenacles whose resounding literary activity was the theatre.

Author Biography

Ramona Malița, Faculty of Letters, West University of Timișoara

Ramona Malița teaches French Medieval, Renaissance and 19th century literature. Her main topics of research are: 19th century French literature, Medieval literature, francophone studies, history of translations, literature didactics. She is member of the Société des études staëliennes (Genève), member of SEPTET, Société de traductologie (Strasbourg), member of the AUF. She is in charge of French Lecturing and co-supervisor of the Centre de Réussite Universitaire at the West University of Timișoara.

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Published

2021-02-02

How to Cite

Malița, R. (2021). Madame de Staël or the Necessity of a Second Life: The Theatre. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai - Dramatica, 65(2), 39–56. Retrieved from https://dramatica.ro/index.php/j/article/view/51

Issue

Vol. 65 No. 2 (2020): To be a Theatre Critic and Historian Nowadays. In memoriam MARIA VODĂ CĂPUȘAN (1940 – 2017)

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