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George Sand Zusammenfassung

George Sand Martine Reid

The romantic and rebellious novelist George Sand, born in 1804 as Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, remains one of Frances most infamous and beloved literary figures. Thanks to a peerless translation by Gretchen van Slyke, Martine Reids acclaimed biography of Sand is now available in English.

Drawing on recent French and English biographies of Sand as well as her novels, plays, autobiographical texts, and correspondence, Reid creates the most complete portrait possible of a writer who was both celebrated and vilified. Reid contextualizes Sand within the literature of the nineteenth century, unfolds the meaning and importance of her chosen pen name, and pays careful attention to Sands political, artistic, and scientific expressions and interests. The result is a candid, even-handed, and illuminating representation of a remarkable woman in remarkable times.

With its clear, flowing language and impeccable scholarship, this Ernest Montuses Awardwinning biography of the author of La Petite Fadette and A Winter in Majorca will be of great interest to those specializing in Sand and nineteenth-century literatureand to readers everywhere.

George Sand Bewertungen

Martine Reids life of Sand is a miracle of concision and evenhandedness.

Benita Eisler The Wall Street Journal

Highly recommended for George Sand devotees, but the audience for this masterly and definitive biography should be legion.

starred review Library Journal

This biography offers an excellent point of entry into Sands life and thought, encouraging reevaluation of a famed but perhaps underrated author who felt for humanity . . . because they are me.

Publishers Weekly

Patiently illustrates the authors paradoxes in a work intended for the non-specialist reader. . . . Reids writing is level-headed and concise, showing Sands engagement with contemporary issues and the way these interests found their way into her writing.

The Economist

This exciting, intelligent, and informative biography does not dwell solely on Sands romantic escapades (though it does do them justice) nor finds it necessary to insist that she was a great writer (which she was); the author takes that as a matter of course. Instead, Reid treats Sand as a worthy biographer should treat a great author, while pointing out the obstacles Sand faced as a woman writer in a repressive century.

Kathleen R. Hart,author of Revolution and Women's Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century France

A solid contribution to Sand studies, providing a clear, accessible, well-documented introduction to Sands life and works for the uninitiated and a good review for the knowledgeable.

Choice

Endowed with an impressive lightness of touch and remarkable concision, Reids biography is clearly meant to be accessible to a non-specialist readership. In this, however, the book sacrifices none of its scholarliness.

Claire White H-France

This exciting, intelligent, impeccably researched, well-written (and equally well-translated) book is sure to renew the interest of Sand specialists and to attract curious general readers.

S. Pascale Dewey Women in French Studies

Über Martine Reid

Martine Reid is Professor of French Language and Literature at Lille University. She is the editor of several critical editions of George Sands work, including Mademoiselle Merquem and La Petite Fadette, the latter also published by Penn State University Press.

Gretchen van Slyke is Professor of French at the University of Vermont and the translator of George Sands novels The Countess von Rudolstadt and La Petite Fadette, the latter also published by Penn State University Press.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Foreword by Gretchen van Slyke

Chronological Points of Reference

Introduction

1832

I. 18041831

II. 18321851

III. 18521875

1876

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR010352446

ISBN 13

9780271081069

ISBN 10

0271081066

Titel

George Sand Martine Reid

Autor

Martine Reid

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Gebundene Ausgabe

Verlag

Pennsylvania State University Press

Datum

2018-05-04

Anzahl der Seiten

280

Preise

N/A

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