The World of George Sand
Published on 30. September 1991
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-0-313-27584-5 (ISBN)
Description
Bringing together a variety of critical approaches and interdisciplinary perspectives, this work reflects the continuing vitality and breadth of George Sand scholarship around the world. It contains twenty-eight papers and a keynote address presented at the Seventh International George Sand Conference. Contributors include leading European, American, and Asian scholars in the field.
The volume opens with essays by Henri Peyre and Marilyn French focusing on George Sand's relation to her own period and society and her continuing relevance to modern readers. The next three sections are devoted to an examination of Sand's work in specific genres: the novel, travel writing, and autobiography. Other subject areas addressed include the relation of text to personal ideology, political views, and sexual politics and identity. The remaining chapters explore Sand's relationships with her contemporaries, including Alfred de Musset, Balzac, Flaubert, and Alexandre Dumas fils. Presenting the best in current scholarship in the field, this work will be of interest for studies and courses relating to nineteenth century women writers, French literature, women's studies, cultural and social history, and related subjects.
The volume opens with essays by Henri Peyre and Marilyn French focusing on George Sand's relation to her own period and society and her continuing relevance to modern readers. The next three sections are devoted to an examination of Sand's work in specific genres: the novel, travel writing, and autobiography. Other subject areas addressed include the relation of text to personal ideology, political views, and sexual politics and identity. The remaining chapters explore Sand's relationships with her contemporaries, including Alfred de Musset, Balzac, Flaubert, and Alexandre Dumas fils. Presenting the best in current scholarship in the field, this work will be of interest for studies and courses relating to nineteenth century women writers, French literature, women's studies, cultural and social history, and related subjects.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Interest Age: From 7 to 17 years
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
690 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-313-27584-5 (9780313275845)
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Persons
NATALIE DATLOF is Director of Liaison and Creative Development, Hofstra University Cultural Center. She edited The George Sand Papers (Conference Proceedings, 1976 and 1978), and is Co-Editor-in-Chief of George Sand Studies.
JEANNE FUCHS is Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and Languages at Hofstra University. She has also been Associate Dean for Student Academic Affairs for four years. Her main research is in eighteenth-century French literature, and she is working on a book on Rousseau's La Nouvelle Heloise.
DAVID A. POWELL is Associate Dean for Student Academic Affairs and Assistant Professor of French at Hofstra University. He has published a book-length study and several journal articles on George Sand, as well as articles on other literary topics. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of George Sand Studies.
JEANNE FUCHS is Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and Languages at Hofstra University. She has also been Associate Dean for Student Academic Affairs for four years. Her main research is in eighteenth-century French literature, and she is working on a book on Rousseau's La Nouvelle Heloise.
DAVID A. POWELL is Associate Dean for Student Academic Affairs and Assistant Professor of French at Hofstra University. He has published a book-length study and several journal articles on George Sand, as well as articles on other literary topics. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of George Sand Studies.
Content
Preface Keynote Address "George Sand, Our Contemporary" by Henri Peyre Special Address "The Great Chain" by Marilyn French Rustic Novels Apprenticeship According to George Sand by Anne Berger La Petite Fadette: A Pre-Feminist Dialectic of Tradition by Brigitte Lane The Language of Loss in George Sand's Le Meunier d'Angibault by Wendell McClendon Francois Comes of Age: Language, Culture and the Subject by Jane A. Nicholson Lettres d'un voyageur Imaginary and Symbolic Orders in "Sur Lavater et sur une maison deserte" by Mary Anne Garnett Lettres d'un voyageur: Traveling with George Sand by Susan H. Leger Autobiography Positioning the Self in Autobiographical Writing: George Sand as Model for Marguerite Yourcenar by Peter Christensen Histoire de ma vie: George Sand and Autobiography by Gita May Aurore Inscribing Aurore: A Reading of "La Reine Coax" by Lynn Kettler Penrod George Sand's Poetics of Autobiography by Marilyn Yalom Text and Ideology George Sand and the Romantic Sibyl by Marie-Jacques Hoog Consuelo and La Comtesse de Rudolstadt: From Gothic Novel to Novel of Initiation by Isabelle Naginski Consuelo and Porporino, or the Influence of Change by David A. Powell Intertextuality:Valentine and La Princesse de Cleves by Lucy M. Schwartz Political Affinities Nanon: Novel of Revolution or Revolutionary Novel? by Nancy E. Rogers Reasons of the Heart: George Sand, Flaubert and the Commune by Murray Sachs Freedom Smuggler: George Sand and the German VorMArz by Gisela Schlientz Sexual Politics Elle et lui: Literary Idealization and the Censorship of Female Sexuality by Marie Diamond Mademoiselle Merquem: De-Mythifying Woman by Rejecting the Law of the Father by Claude Holland Healers in George Sand's Works by Annabelle M. Rea The Divided Self in Lelia: The Effects of Dualism on the Feminine Psyche by Wendy Ann Ryden La Petite Fadette: An Epicene Cautionary Tale by MAIr Verthuy Contemporaries George Sand and Alfred de Musset: Absolution through Art in La Confession d'un enfant de siecle by Jeanne Fuchs George Sand's Multiple Appearences in Balzac's La Muse du departement by Janis Glasgow George Sand's Reception in Russia: The Case of Elena Gan by Kevin J. McKenna George Sand and Flaubert: Inspiration and Divergence by Mary Rice The Important, Little-Known Friendship of George Sand and Alexandre Dumas fils by Eve Sourian Two Monologues from Dialectic of the Heart by Alex Szogyi Fanny Lewald and George Sand: Eine Lebensfrage and Indiana by Margaret E. Ward and Karen Storz Selected Bibliography Indexes