Thesis--Columbia University, 1907. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-115).

Texte remanié de: Th.--Lettres--Paris, 1905.

(Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Illinois, 1913.). / Reprinted from Deutsch-amerikanische Geschichtsblaetter, Jahrbuch der deutsch-amerikanischen historischen Gesellschaft von Illinois. Bibliography: p. 142-147.

Thèse (M.A.)--Université Laval, 2003. / Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 29 novembre 2004). Bibliogr.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves: 74-77)

Texte remanié: Diss.--Saarbrücken--Universität, 1995. / Contient des textes en français. Bibliogr.

This study was initiated by the desire to do a piece of research which would not only be a useful experience for us as social work graduate students, but also would be meeting the needs of an ,agency in the local community. In exploring the opportunities available to us, we found that the three of us were all employed by the Louise Home for Girls in Portland. In addition we each had a concern for the quality of treatment being provided by the Home. Therefore, we approached the administration of the Louise Home to see if they would be interested in our doing a research project involving the agency.

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The central theme in Delphine and Corinne, two novels by Madame de Stael, is that of the tragic and suffering heroine. The heroines die for ideals: those of freedom and the right to live their lives according to moral principles of the highest order. For Madame de Stael, the Parisian society she lives in, allows women no real freedom and therefore, there is no sense of morals where they are concerned. In Delphine, she draws a series of portraits of unhappy and psychologically scarred women, and she shows how prejudice and social convention brought this about. In Corinne, Madame de Stael's imagination explodes into her vision of the performing heroine who dazzles not only her fellow fiction characters but contemporary literary women. In both novels, the hero abandons the heroine and she dies. The theme of the tragic hero inspires early romantic literature. Madame de Stael introduces the essential characteristics of romanticism to the French in From Germany. The heroine's drama is her own. This thesis studies the guiding influences, the sources and the inspiration of Madame de Stael's ideas which led her to state that moral principles did not exist for women in the society of her day.

Louise Dupin (1706-1799), illustre salonnière à son époque, est une auteure « féministe » dont la pensée reste aujourd’hui méconnue : ses manuscrits – de la main d’un secrétaire qui a pour nom Jean-Jacques Rousseau – ont effectivement attendu un siècle et demi avant de sortir des mains de ses héritiers. Ils sont ensuite restés soixante ans inédits en raison de leur dispersion géographique. Nous proposons ici au lecteur, pour la première fois, une transcription des parties historique et éducative de son Ouvrage sur les femmes. On lira aussi la partie féministe de sa « Critique de l’Esprit des lois ». La châtelaine de Chenonceau a en effet été l’une des premières à risquer une réfutation du livre de Montesquieu. Voltaire en a été un lecteur attentif. Comment donc s’articulent chez elle réflexion féministe et réflexion politique dans le cadre d’une pensée aux prises avec les grands philosophes de son temps ? En quoi son monarchisme est-il en partie bousculé par des convictions dont le maître-mot est l’égalité ? C’est au coeur de sa pensée historique, politique et morale – à la fois équilibrée, érudite et pugnace – que nous souhaiterions entraîner le lecteur. / In her day Louise Dupin (1706-1799) was a famous salon holder and a "feminist" author whose writings are still relatively unknown. It took a century and a half for her manuscripts – written by her secretary, a certain Jean-Jacques Rousseau – to leave the hands of her inheritors. Then, due to their geographical dispersion, they remained unpublished for a further sixty years. For the first time, readers can now consult a transcription of the historical and educational parts of her Ouvrage sur les femmes. We shall also explore the feminist part of her "Critique de l’Esprit des lois". The chatelaine of Chenonceau was in fact one of the first to risk a refutation of Montesquieu's work. Voltaire read it attentively. How did she articulate her feminist and political thought in her encounters with the great philosophers of her day? To what degree was her monarchism troubled by convictions whose keyword was equality? We would like to introduce readers to the balanced, erudite and pugnacious character of her historical, political and moral thinking.