Double Life Of George Sand
Author : Renee Winegarten
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 32,87 MB
Release : 1978-12-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Renee Winegarten
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 32,87 MB
Release : 1978-12-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : George Sand
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 1172 pages
File Size : 46,34 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780791405802
Author : Karolina Pavlova
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 46,65 MB
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0231549113
An unsung classic of nineteenth-century Russian literature, Karolina Pavlova’s A Double Life alternates prose and poetry to offer a wry picture of Russian aristocratic society and vivid dreams of escaping its strictures. Pavlova combines rich narrative prose that details balls, tea parties, and horseback rides with poetic interludes that depict her protagonist’s inner world—and biting irony that pervades a seemingly romantic description of a young woman who has everything. A Double Life tells the story of Cecily, who is being trapped into marriage by her well-meaning mother; her best friend, Olga; and Olga’s mother, who means to clear the way for a wealthier suitor for her own daughter by marrying off Cecily first. Cecily’s privileged upbringing makes her oblivious to the havoc that is being wreaked around her. Only in the seclusion of her bedroom is her imagination freed: each day of deception is followed by a night of dreams described in soaring verse. Pavlova subtly speaks against the limitations placed on women and especially women writers, which translator Barbara Heldt highlights in a critical introduction. Among the greatest works of literature by a Russian woman writer, A Double Life is worthy of a central place in the Russian canon.
Author : Curtis Cate
Publisher : Avon Books
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 21,85 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Novelists, French
ISBN : 9780380007004
A biography of the 19th century author, George Sand, discussing her personal life and her literary achievements and describing her relationships with other artistic figures of her time.
Author : Sarah Bernhardt
Publisher :
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 17,45 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Actors
ISBN :
Author : Jo Burr Margadant
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 38,2 MB
Release : 2000-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520221413
This collection offers new perspectives on the lives of eight famous women in nineteenth century France. Their stories are used as a starting point through which the contributing authors experiment with what is called "the new biography."
Author : Elizabeth Harlan
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 29,91 MB
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300130562
div 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. /DIV
Author : Peter Gay
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 37,83 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393033984
Gay's search through middle-class Victorian culture, illuminated by lively portraits of such daunting figures as Bismarck, Darwin and his acolytes, George Eliot, and the great satirists Daumier and Wilhelm Busch, covers a vast terrain: the relations between men and women, wit, demagoguery, and much more. We discover the multiple ways in which the nineteenth century at once restrained aggressive behavior and licensed it. Aggression split the social universe into insiders and outsiders. "By gathering up communities of insiders," Professor Gay writes, the Victorians "discovered--only too often invented--a world of strangers beyond the pale, of individuals and classes, races and nations it was perfectly proper to debate, patronize, ridicule, bully, exploit, or exterminate." The aggressions so channeled or bottled could not be contained forever. Ultimately, they exploded in the First World War.
Author : Dawn D. Eidelman
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 22,25 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780838752692
Mauprat features Edmee, a self-actualizing "woman as hero" protagonist. Here the notion of "fiction of relationship" emerges, as male Russian authors created tragic, idealized woman characters who could never really live up to the "terrible perfection" with which they were endowed.
Author : Peter Gay
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 717 pages
File Size : 18,25 MB
Release : 1993-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0393243451
With the same sweep, authority, and originality that marked his best-selling Freud: A Life for Our Time, Peter Gay here takes us on a remarkable journey through middle-class Victorian culture. Gay's search through middle-class Victorian culture, illuminated by lively portraits of such daunting figures as Bismarck, Darwin and his acolytes, George Eliot, and the great satirists Daumier and Wilhelm Busch, covers a vast terrain: the relations between men and women, wit, demagoguery, and much more. We discover the multiple ways in which the nineteenth century at once restrained aggressive behavior and licensed it. Aggression split the social universe into insiders and outsiders. "By gathering up communities of insiders," Professor Gay writes, the Victorians "discovered--only too often invented--a world of strangers beyond the pale, of individuals and classes, races and nations it was perfectly proper to debate, patronize, ridicule, bully, exploit, or exterminate." The aggressions so channeled or bottled could not be contained forever. Ultimately, they exploded in the First World War.