W. Maierhofer ist Professorin für deutsche Literatur an der Universität Iowa (USA). G. M. Roesch ist Professorin für Deutsch als Fremdsprache an der Universität Heidelberg. Dr. C. Bland ist Dozentin für Germanistik an der Universität Sheffield, England. / W. Maierhofer ist Professorin für deutsche Literatur an der Universität Iowa (USA). G. M. Roesch ist Professorin für Deutsch als Fremdsprache an der Universität Heidelberg. Dr. C. Bland ist Dozentin für Germanistik an der Universität Sheffield, England.

Introduction: Women and Women's Writing against
Napoleon
Napoleon and Women? Women against Napoleon!
Waltraud Maierhofer11

Contemporaries: With Scepter, Sword, or Pen - Forms of Resistance

Englishwomen and Napoleon Bonaparte
Deborah Kennedy39

Maria Carolina, Queen of Naples: The "Devil's Grandmother" Fights Napoleon
Waltraud Maierhofer57

Marseilles to Stockholm - Bonaparte to Bernadotte: The unique life of Désirée Clary
Dorothy Potter79

Anti-war, Anti-Napoleon: Guardians of Material and
Spiritual Welfare

French Women Respond to Napoleon
Denise Z. Davidson95

The Liberation from Napoleon as Self-Liberation. The Year 1813 in
the Letters of Rahel Varnhagen
Gertrud Maria Roesch109

Friederike Brun's Briefe aus Rom (1816): Cosmopolitanism,
Nationalism, and the Politics of "Geistlichkeit"
Kari Lokke137

Forms of Aesthetics and Cultural-political Opposition

Diversionary Tactics: Art Criticism as Political Weapon in Staël's
Corinne, ou l'Italie (1807)
Heather Belnap Jensen161

Rewriting the National Paradigm: Staël's De l'Allemagne (1810) and the "German" Defence of Sociability
Beatrice Guenther187

Napoleon, the Museum, and Memory Politics in Caroline de la Motte Fouqué's Geschichte der Moden (1829-30)
Silke Arnold-de Simine205

Belated Nineteenth-century and Twentieth-century
Opposition: Lessons of Nationalism

The Triumph of Moderation? The "Wars of Liberation" in the
Writing of Louise von François
Caroline Bland223

Fighting Napoleon - Loving the French. Friedrich Spielhagen,
Noblesse oblige (1888)
Jeffrey L. Sammons247

Growing into a Nation: Queen Luise and the Lessons of Nationalism
in Adolescent Fiction for Girls

Jennifer Drake Askey265
Thwarted Enemy. Eros and Self-Assertion in Gertrud Kolmar's Poem Cycle Napoleon und Marie (1920-21)
Barbara Besslich281

List of contributors301
List of illustrations304
Acknowledgements304 / Introduction: Women and Women's Writing against
Napoleon
Napoleon and Women? Women against Napoleon!
Waltraud Maierhofer11

Contemporaries: With Scepter, Sword, or Pen - Forms of Resistance

Englishwomen and Napoleon Bonaparte
Deborah Kennedy39

Maria Carolina, Queen of Naples: The "Devil's Grandmother" Fights Napoleon
Waltraud Maierhofer57

Marseilles to Stockholm - Bonaparte to Bernadotte: The unique life of Désirée Clary
Dorothy Potter79

Anti-war, Anti-Napoleon: Guardians of Material and
Spiritual Welfare

French Women Respond to Napoleon
Denise Z. Davidson95

The Liberation from Napoleon as Self-Liberation. The Year 1813 in
the Letters of Rahel Varnhagen
Gertrud Maria Roesch109

Friederike Brun's Briefe aus Rom (1816): Cosmopolitanism,
Nationalism, and the Politics of "Geistlichkeit"
Kari Lokke137

Forms of Aesthetics and Cultural-political Opposition

Diversionary Tactics: Art Criticism as Political Weapon in Staël's
Corinne, ou l'Italie (1807)
Heather Belnap Jensen161

Rewriting the National Paradigm: Staël's De l'Allemagne (1810) and the "German" Defence of Sociability
Beatrice Guenther187

Napoleon, the Museum, and Memory Politics in Caroline de la Motte Fouqué's Geschichte der Moden (1829-30)
Silke Arnold-de Simine205

Belated Nineteenth-century and Twentieth-century
Opposition: Lessons of Nationalism

The Triumph of Moderation? The "Wars of Liberation" in the
Writing of Louise von François
Caroline Bland223

Fighting Napoleon - Loving the French. Friedrich Spielhagen,
Noblesse oblige (1888)
Jeffrey L. Sammons247

Growing into a Nation: Queen Luise and the Lessons of Nationalism
in Adolescent Fiction for Girls

Jennifer Drake Askey265
Thwarted Enemy. Eros and Self-Assertion in Gertrud Kolmar's Poem Cycle Napoleon und Marie (1920-21)
Barbara Besslich281

List of contributors301
List of illustrations304
Acknowledgements304