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Gender in the fiction of George Sand

Title
Gender in the fiction of George Sand / Françoise Massardier-Kenney.
Author
Massardier-Kenney, Françoise.
Publication
Amsterdam ; Atlanta, GA : Rodopi, 2000.

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Description
197 pages; 22 cm.
Summary
"In Gender in the Fiction of George Sand, Francoise Massardier-Kenney argues that the major nineteenth-century French writer George Sand articulates in her novels a complex and extremely modern conception of gender, questioning prevalent patriarchal modes of discourse and redefining masculinity and femininity. Through the analysis of a representative sample of Sand's works (Indiana, Jacques, La derniere Aldini, Jeanne, Horace, Valvedre, Melle la Quintinie, Gabriel, Lucrezia Floriana, and Nanon), Massardier-Kenney uncovers the themes and strategies used by Sand to challenge essentializing and negative representations of women. Gender in the Fiction of George Sand demonstrates the centrality of Sand's pioneering exploration of the construction of gender. This original study will be of interest to scholars of nineteenth-century French literature and culture, women's literature, and gender studies."--Jacket.
Series Statement
Faux titre ; no. 175
Uniform Title
Faux titre ; no. 175.
Subject
  • Sand, George, 1804-1876 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Sand, George, 1804-1876
  • Sand, George
  • Gender identity in literature
  • Geschlechterrolle
  • Sekseverschillen
  • Romans
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-192) and index.
Contents
Ch. I. Victimization in Indiana and Jacques -- Ch. II. Fictions of Undesire: From La derniere Aldini to Jeanne -- Ch. III. Romantic Narrative Authority in Jeopardy: Horace, Valvedre, and Mademoiselle la Quintinie -- Ch. IV. The Man Within or the Limits of Androgyny: Gabriel and Lucrezia Floriani -- Ch. V. Nanon and Utopias of Gender.
ISBN
  • 9042007079
  • 9789042007079
OCLC
  • ocm43165617
  • 43165617
  • SCSB-9389866
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library