George Sand / Elizabeth Harlan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harlan, Elizabeth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sand, George, 1804-1876.

Sand, George.

Novelists, French--19th century--Biography.

Novelists, French.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (xx, 376 p.) ) ill., ports.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1. Her Father's Daughter

2. The Importance of Being Marie-Aurore de Saxe

3. Sophie Victorious

4. Spanish Sojourn

5. Sophie's Choice

6. Enigma of the Sphinx

7. Convent and Conversion

8. Coming of Age

9. Pater Semper Incertus Est

10. Marriage and Motherhood

11. Passion in the Pyrenees

12. Ready, Set, Go

13. "Our Motto Is Freedom"

14. George Sand Is Born

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

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-359) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

1-281-73070-X

0-300-13056-2

OCLC:

1024060885