Format:
1 online resource (397 pages)
ISBN:
9780300130560
Content:
George Sand was the most famous-and most scandalous-woman in nineteenth-century France. As a writer, she was enormously prolific-she wrote more than ninety novels, thirty-five plays, and thousands of pages of autobiography. She inspired writers as diverse as Flaubert and Proust but is often remembered for her love affairs with such figures as Musset and Chopin. Her affair with Chopin is the most notorious: their nine-year relationship ended in 1847 when Sand began to suspect that the composer had fallen in love with her daughter, Solange. Drawing on archival sources-much of it neglected by Sand's previous biographers-Elizabeth Harlan examines the intertwined issues of maternity and identity that haunt Sand's writing and defined her life. Why was Sand's relationship with her daughter so fraught? Why was a woman so famous for her personal and literary audacity ultimately so conflicted about women's liberation? In an effort to solve the riddle of Sand's identity, Harlan examines a latticework of lives that include Solange, Sand's mother and grandmother, and Sand's own protagonists, whose stories amplify her own.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One: Foundations and Fault Lines -- 1 Her Father's Daughter -- 2 The Importance of Being Marie-Aurore de Saxe -- 3 Sophie Victorious -- 4 Spanish Sojourn -- 5 Sophie's Choice -- Part Two: Revelations and Confessions -- 6 Enigma of the Sphinx -- 7 Convent and Conversion -- 8 Coming of Age -- 9 Pater Semper Incertus Est -- Part Three: Marriage, Motherhood, and Misgivings -- 10 Marriage and Motherhood -- 11 Passion in the Pyrenees -- 12 Ready, Set, Go -- 13 "Our Motto Is Freedom" -- 14 George Sand Is Born -- Part Four: The Daughter's Demise -- 15 A Daughter Is Born -- 16 The Author and the Actress -- 17 Sons and Lovers -- 18 Mother Love -- 19 Liaison Dangereuse -- 20 Broken Bonds: Solange and Chopin -- 21 Collateral Damage and Lucrézia Floriani -- Part Five: War and Peace -- 22 Revolution and Reverberations -- 23 Coming to Writing -- 24 Confession of a Young Girl -- 25 The Art of Loving -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780300104172
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780300104172
Language:
English
