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15 janvier 2020
- doi: 10.4000/books.ledizioni.7935
- isbn: 9788867054121
- eisbn: 9788855260428
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Andrea Berardini, « Corinne in the North. Madame de Staël’s Influence on Sophie von Knorring and August Strindberg », Ledizioni, ID : 10.4000/books.ledizioni.7935
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Since its publication in 1807 Mme de Staël’s novel Corinne, ou l’Italie has become a fundamental reference point for many women writers, who have found in it a prototypical representation of the conflict between genius and current definitions of femininity. Translated into Swedish in 1808-09, Corinne inspired writers such as Fredrika Bremer and Sophie von Knorring. The latter offered, in her 1836 novel Kvinnorna, a rewriting of de Staël’s novel, using it to reflect on a woman’s place in a patriarchal society and on the relationship between art and femininity. Later on, when the Woman Question became a widely debated topic, echoes of Corinne can be found even in one of the stories that August Strindberg collected in Giftas II, this time deployed in a misogynist key. Studying the way in which the myth of Corinne is rewritten in different social and literary contexts provides an interesting key to analysing the ideological positions involved in the Woman Question and to discussing gender bias in aesthetic matters