George Sand
(1804 - 1876)
(Pseudonym of Aurore Dupin) French novelist, essayist, and playwright.
George Sand: Introduction
George Sand: Principal Works
George Sand: Primary Sources
George Sand: Genera...
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The French novelist George Sand (1804-1876) was the most successful woman writer of her century. Her novels present a large fresco of romantic sentiment and 19th-century life, especially in its more p...
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For seventy-five years after her death, George Sand was preemptorily dismissed as a writer of adolescent fiction, not worthy of serious study, "une écriveuse" (a woman scribbler). The only titl...
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George Sand (Armantine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin) is often remembered for her work as a novelist, but she devoted much of her abundant energy to drama and the theater as well, producing twenty-one plays for...
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A highly regarded novelist, essayist, and critic, James was one of the nineteenth-century's leading proponents of realism in fiction-writing. In the following excerpt from an essay originally p...
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In the following essay, Rogers traces Sand's sociopolitical awareness in her early novels. Though these novels are more pessimistic than Sand's later works, she argues, they display a si...
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In the following essay, Yalom examines Sand's portrayal of "doubled" or paired female characters in three of her novels — Indiana, Lélia, and My Sister Jeanne. Accor...
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In the following excerpt, Crecelius focuses on Lélia, a novel that has evoked extreme reactions from critics. According to Crecelius, these sharp differences are caused by the varied generic tr...
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Exploring Sand's problematic relationship with the literary canon, Schor argues that the writer's commitment to idealism, rather than her gender, is the cause of her exclusion from the c...
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In this study of Valentine, Miller explores the spatial and sexual economy of the text to highlight Sand's attempts to provide an alternative to the female plot of marriage within a patriarchal...
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In the following extract, Naginski argues that although Sand's contemporaries did not always see her as a serious writer, Sand had a well-developed and clearly articulated poetics, which emphas...
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Today is Saturday, Sept. 22, the 265th day of 2007. There are 100 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Sept. 22, 1776, Nathan Hale was hanged as a spy by the British during the Rev...
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