The Birth of European Romanticism: Truth and Propaganda in Staël's 'de l'Allemagne', 1810-1813It was through Stal's bestseller, De l'Allemagne, that the term Romanticism, coined in Germany, reached Europe and America. Around this term, Stal built a new and universal agenda: her manifesto offered Napoleon's Europe an alternative to everything he stood for. In this ground breaking work, John Claiborne Isbell reasserts Stal's place in history and analyzes her vast agenda, which covers every Classical and Romantic divide in art, philosophy,