Two centuries of sexism have hidden Staël's place in international
history. Straddling the divides of the French Revolution, Napoleonic
Europe, emergent nationalism, and European Romanticism, and playing
pivotal roles in those movements, she was also a friend of Byron,
Jefferson, and Tsar Alexander. Extensive archival research, and a
complete contextual overview of Staël's writings, here restore Staël's
canonical status as political philosopher, historian, European Romantic
theorist, and Revolutionary. While the term stateswoman is not commonly
used, it describes Staël aptly, acting as she necessarily did through
men around her. The brilliant game of masks and proxies imposed on her
by patriarchy is detailed here, alongside her unending fight for the
oppressed, from the nations of Napoleon's subjugated Europe to the
victims of the Atlantic slave trade. This title is part of the Flip it
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