SOURCE: "Writing from the Pavilion: George Sand and the Novel of Female Pastoral," in Subject to Change: Reading Feminist Writing, Columbia University Press, 1988, pp. 206-28.
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 framework.
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