TY - BOOK ID - 78045225 TI - Women's Literary Salons and Political Propaganda During the Napoleonic Era : The Cradle of Patriotic Nationalism PY - 2009 SN - 0773444432 9780773444430 9780773438354 0773438351 PB - Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, DB - UniCat KW - European literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism. KW - Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- In literature. KW - Nationalism and literature -- Europe -- History -- 18th century. KW - Nationalism and literature -- Europe -- History -- 19th century. KW - Salons -- Europe -- History. KW - Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 1766-1817 -- Criticism and interpretation. KW - Women -- Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. KW - Women -- Europe -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. KW - Women and literature -- Europe -- History -- 18th century. KW - Women and literature -- Europe -- History -- 19th century. KW - European literature KW - Women and literature KW - Salons KW - Women KW - Nationalism and literature KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Literature - General KW - Literature and nationalism KW - Literature KW - Human females KW - Wimmin KW - Woman KW - Womon KW - Womyn KW - Females KW - Human beings KW - Femininity KW - French salons KW - Intellectual life KW - Manners and customs KW - History and criticism KW - Women authors KW - History KW - Napoleon KW - Staël, Madame de KW - In literature. KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Napoléon KW - Bonaparte, Napoléon KW - Bonapart, Napoleon, KW - Bonāpārṭa, Nepoliyana KW - Bonaparte, Napoleão KW - Bonaparte, Napoleon KW - Bonaparte, Napoleone KW - Bonaparṭeh, Napolyon, KW - Buonaparte, Napoleon KW - Na-pʻo-lun KW - Nābuliyūn, KW - Napoleone KW - Napʻolleong, KW - Napolun KW - נפוליאון KW - נפוליאון, KW - نابليون KW - بونابرت، نابليون، KW - Būnābart, Nābuliyūn, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78045225 AB - In 1800 Napoleon Bonaparte sought to impose an absolute political authority as First Consul for life, and emperor in 1804. A network of women authors connected with Germaine de Staël in Paris, Coppet, Berlin, and Florence maintained salons and addressed political conflicts in their novels, correspondence and theory. Nationalist histories, also written by salon members, reinforced their unified political agenda by emphasizing the heroic acts that guaranteed national freedom. Semiotics became the primary means of political propaganda and persuasion in the absence of legislative debate and women' ER -