Research Catalog

Title

Men of their words : the poetics of masculinity in George Sand's fiction / Nigel Harkness.

Author

Harkness, Nigel, 1967-

Publication

London : Legenda, 2007.

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Details

Description

159 pages; 26 cm

Summary

"Whereas the centrality of femininity to nineteenth-century French fiction has been the focus of widespread critical attention, masculinity has, until recently, received little sustained treatment in either the literary or socio-historical domains. In this book, Nigel Harkness uses the fiction of George Sand (1804-76), the pre-eminent woman writer of the period, to explore questions of masculinity as they pertain to the nineteenth-century French novel, and to map out new approaches to the study of literary masculinity." "Drawing on contemporary theories of gender and narrative, Harkness reveals how Sand's novels repeatedly focus on a nexus of language, masculinity and power, in which narrative is both a vehicle for the expression of manhood, and a site where masculinity is discursively performed. Masculinity is thus reconfigured in Sand's fiction as an identity constituted as much through words as through actions. Analysis of these performances of masculinity offers fresh insights into gendered processes of literary representation in the nineteenth-century French novel."--Jacket.

Subject

• Sand, George, 1804-1876 > Criticism and interpretation
• Sand, George, 1804-1876
• Sand, George 1804-1876
• Sand, George
• Masculinity in literature
• Männlichkeit Motiv

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-155) and index.

Contents

Conceptualizing nineteenth-century masculinity -- Masculinity, homosociality, and representation -- A man's word is his power -- The father-son relationship and literary paternity -- Disrupting narratives of masculine desire.

ISBN

• 9781904350873
• 1904350879

LCCN

2008396852

OCLC

• ocm86168376
• 86168376
• SCSB-9390097

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library