It was through Sta?l's bestseller, De l'Allemagne, that the term Romanticism, coined in Germany, reached Europe and America. Around this term, Sta?l built a new and universal agenda: her manifesto offered Napoleon's Europe an alternative to everything he stood for. In this ground-breaking work, John Claiborne Isbell reasserts Sta?l's place in history and analyzes her vast agenda, which covers every Classical and Romantic divide in art, philosophy,...