Publisher's Synopsis
Amantine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin (1804-1876) took the pseudonym George Sand and wrote over 80 novels, 20 plays and many political tracts, but she has long been remembered more for her unorthodox life-style and famous lovers than for her writing. This study broadens the scope of Sand studies by emphasizing her importance both as a major French Romantic writer with social concerns and as a feminist writer. It covers the French social history to which her works reacted and the literary and cultural environment she shared with Balzac, Flaubert, Dumas, Chopin, Liszt and others. Powell features Sand's autobiographical works in response to growing interest in them. A concluding chapter studies the short stories she wrote for her grandchildren as examples of her style and thematics.
