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Masquerade and Social Justice in Contemporary Latin American Fiction
Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines philosophy, history, psychology, literature, and social justice theory, this study delineates the synergistic connection between masquerade and social justice in Latin American fiction.
Water Imagery in George Sand’s Work
This collection of essays highlights the importance of water imagery in the work of the renowned nineteenth-century French female author George Sand. It provides a complex picture of the polyvalent presence of water in Sand’s work that encompasses life and death imagery, ecocriticism, fluid kinship, homosocial ties, and artistic creativity. Drawing on Gaston Bachelard’s premise that the substance of water carries deep meaning, the articles in this volume explore the element of water and its symbolism in a selection of George Sand’s writings and art work, from her most famous novels (Indiana, Lélia, and Consuelo) to her later works, short stories, plays, and autobiographical writing (Teverino, Jean de la Roche, Les Maîtres sonneurs, La Reine Coax, L’Homme de neige, Le Drac, Un Hiver à Majorque, Marianne), and dendrite paintings.
Reflections on Europe in Transition
Original Scholarly Monograph
Libertine Fashion
Shortlisted for the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2021 Libertine practices have long been associated with transgression and social deviance. This innovative book is the first to focus fully on the relationship between libertinism as a social phenomenon and as a form of fashion. Taking the reader from early modernity to the present day, Adam Geczy and Vicki Karaminas reveal how the connection between clothing and the taboo, the erotic, and the forbidden is at the heart of "libertine fashion". Moving from the decadent courts of Charles II and Louis XV to the catwalks of the 21st century, Libertine Fashion examines literary and sartorial figures ranging from the Marqui...
Vision in the Novels of George Sand
The nineteenth-century novelist, George Sand, is most famous today for her tumultuous love life and trouser-wearing days in Paris, but she achieved major commercial and critical success in her day and has gradually made her way back into the literary canon. Mainly known for her pastoral tales and allegedly simplistic idealism, Sand in fact produced around ninety novels which experiment with a wide range of themes, forms and aesthetic models. This book offers thefirst study of vision in Sand's works. It argues that, rather than rejecting reality in favour of the ideal, Sand integrates physical observation with internal forms of seeing such as the imaginationand visionary insights. The study maintains that Sand's understanding of vision provides the basis for her distinctive style and challenges conventional categorisations of the novel in this period.
The New Europe at the Crossroads
Contributions from professors in the humanities, sociology, classics, and the arts provide the book with a broader dimension by taking the topic of a new, united Europe beyond the usually discussed economic and political aspects. The diverse essays show that a united Europe is far more complex than anticipated by the architects of the Maastricht treaty.
Disguise in George Sand's Novels
Sandian heroines swirl around men in their sororal and sartorial disguises like moths around candle flames. However, as Disguise in George Sand's Novels illustrates, the disguise is not an instrument to seduce men but rather to assert the heroines' true selves. The portrayal of female and androgynous protagonists in Rose et Blanche (1831), Indiana (1832), Lélia (1833/39), Gabriel (1839), Consuelo (1842), and La Comtesse de Rudolstadt (1844) is a metaphor to demonstrate the continuity of identities before and after the disguise as George Sand stipulates in her theory of the ménechme. Disguise in George Sand's Novels explores the maturation process of Romantic and artistically inclined heroines and highlights the spiritual meaning of the disguise as a rite of passage for the birth of a new type of protagonist: spiritual, self-assertive, and dedicated to erasing gender inequality and helping the poor.
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La famille de Germandre
« Inspiré d’une pièce de George Sand, L’Homme de campagne(1860), La Famille de Germandre (1861) raconte une succession testamentaire opposant après la Révolution les deux branches d’une famille aristocratique, dont l’une s’est mésalliée avec la paysannerie. Ne pouvant plus invoquer le droit d’aînesse, la branche restée noble se mesure à l’autre dans un contexte où le mérite de l’individu prime sa naissance. Grâce à ses qualités naturelles et à ses connaissances numismatiques, seul celui s’étant mésallié, l’homme de campagne, réussit l’épreuve imposée aux prétendants à l’héritage : l’ouverture d’un coffre dont le sphinx décoratif emblématise le passage de la mort(l’Ancien Régime) à la vie (l’après-Révolution). Il n’empêche que le chassé-croisé sentimental entre les deux branches familiales concilie idéalement la tradition aristocratique avec les promesses d’une régénération républicaine. »--
Simon
Summary: Edition critique sous la direction de Béatrice Didier par Catherine Mariette-Clot (Simon) et Suzel Esquier (Lettres d'un voyageur).
