SOURCE: "Lelia" in Family Romances: George Sand's Early Novels, Indiana University Press, 1987, pp. 95-114.
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 traditions that the novel draws upon to explore the dark side of Sand's imagination.
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