George Sand : : Writing for Her Life / / / Isabelle Naginski.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Naginski, Isabelle,
• Author: Naginski, Isabelle,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : : Rutgers University Press, , [1991]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 1991
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS --; INTRODUCTION --; CHAPTER 1 Gynography and Androgyny --; CHAPTER 2 Histoire du rêveur: The Dreamer's Plot --; CHAPTER 3 Indiana or the Creation of a Literary Voice --; CHAPTER 4 Valentine and the Theory of Spheres --; CHAPTER 5 Lélia: Novel of the Invisible --; CHAPTER 6 Two Metaphysical Novels: Spiridion and the Lélia of 1839 --; CHAPTER 7 From Desolatio to Consolatio: The Utopian Convalescence of an Enfant du siècle --; CHAPTER 8 Consuelo and La Comtesse de Rudolstadt: From Gothic Novel to Novel of Initiation --; CHAPTER 9 Articulating an Ars Poetica --; NOTES --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780813566917; 9783110663334
• DOI: 10.36019/9780813566917
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Isabelle Naginski.

Sand was a prolific writer of nearly 60 novels who dealt with the serious issues of her time and was identified with the Romantic literary movement. Yet serious study of her works is lacking, for Sand became known more for her eccentric lifestyle and love affairs with famous contemporaries, i.e., Alfred de Musset and Frederic Chopin, than her career as a writer. Moreover, she was unique in her approach as a woman who refused to trivialize her craft because of her gender. The author of this critical study sets the record straight, belatedly bestowing upon Sand the academic acclaim that is long past due. Through extensive analysis of her principal works, she delineates her progression from mal du siecle pessimism to utopian optimism and from diagnosing society's ills to prescribing a cure for them. The author (French, Russian, and comparative literature, Tufts Univ.) has aptly illuminated Sand's unique narrative approach and has opened the door for further examination of her works.