• Madelyn Gutwirth, PrefaceKaryna Szmurlo, IntroductionI. Revolutionary engagementsMarie-Eve Beausoleil, Germaine de Staël as political activist: print, privacy and opinion in the French Revolution (1789-1799)Paul S. Spalding, Germaine de Staël’s role in rescuing Lafayette, 1792-1797Catriona Seth, Germaine de Staël and Marie-AntoinetteDoris Y. Kadish, Patriarchy and abolition: Staël and fathersCarrie F. Klaus, The ‘French’ and the ‘foreign’ in works by Germaine de Staël, Isabelle de Charrière and Cornélie WoutersChinatsu Takeda, On a liberal interpretation of the French Revolution: Mme de Staël’s Considérations sur la Révolution françaiseAurelian Craiutu, Moderation and the Groupe de CoppetSusan Tenenbaum, Turning honour on its head: Germaine de Staël’s indictment of NapoleonJean-Marie Roulin, Ontology and the politics of return in Germaine de StaëlII. In space and time: cultural cross-currentsAnn T. Gardiner, From group to traveller’s network: thoughts on reconfiguring sociability in Germaine de StaëlClorinda Donato, Against Coppet’s Italie: Ugo Foscolo’s engaged Italian RomanticismRobert Casillo, Staël, Stendhal and the reputation of the modern ItaliansPaola Giuli, Poetry and national identity: Corinne, Corilla and the idea of ItalyNanora Sweet, Staël the poet: recuperating ItalyUlrike Wagner, From words to worlds: De l’Allemagne and the transnational recasting of the ancient pastEric Gidal, Conversation and censorship: De l’Allemagne and the British reviewsSummariesBibliographyIndex

‘This volume with its extensive bibliography is an absorbing and timely addition to Staël scholarship and will appeal to a broad readership through its impressive sweep of writings’.- H-France Review