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Mar 9, 2018 · George Sand (1804-1876) is known to modern readers as a symbol of feminism, a woman who challenged patriarchal values through her writings and her life. Sand left her husband, took multiple lovers, dressed like a man, smoked cigarettes, and wrote novels, essays, and plays in which she defined herself apart from the social conventions that ...
Jun 8, 2015 · George Sand was one of the most brilliant, stern and just representatives of that category of the contemporaneous Western new men who, when they appeared, started with a direct negation of those “positive” acquisitions which brought to a close the activities of the bloody French — more correctly, European — revolution of the end of the ...
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This chapter reveals Sand’s sophisticated and innovative approach to realism in her early novels. It focuses in particular on the image of the mirror and shows how Sand represents reality whilst also revealing the instability of reality and our limited capacity to grasp hold of it through sight. The chapter then considers the alternative ...
In nearly all George Sand's loves there was a strong strain of motherly feeling. Chopin was first petted by her like a spoilt darling and then nursed for years like a sick child. During this, her second period, George Sand allowed herself to be the mouthpiece of others - " un echo qui embellissait la voix," as Delatouche expressed it.
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‘George Sand: A Desire‘ begins with the speakerpraising Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin for her brains and her heart. She takes on the qualities of both man and woman in her writing. Browning calls out Dupin for her choice to be known as George Sand, and then continues on to celebrate the strength it took for Dupin to write as she did, and about what ...
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The speaker begins ‘George Sand: A Desire‘ by introducing the woman to whom this poem is dedicated. Without prior knowledge, understanding the meaning proves difficult, but once one knows that “George Sand” was the pen name of the female poet, Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, the poem’s true nature reveals itself. In the first, fairly well-known line, the speaker addresses Dupin as both a man and a woman. She is “large-brained” in that she is an exceptional writer, and she is “large-hearted” bec...
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In the second half of the octave, the speaker states what she “desires” to happen to, and for, Dupin. This “wish” is solely metaphoricalin nature, but it does vividly represent how Browning felt about Dupin’s contributions, as a writer and as a woman, to the craft. She wants, in the circus that is the modern world, for there to be a brief clap of thunder over the heads of those “applauding” the world’s norms. From this thunder, Dupin’s strength would be celebrated. It would be as if “two pini...
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These thoughts continue into the last six lines. These “swan” wings will come from Dupin’s shoulders and, perhaps, lift her up above the crowd so that all may see who she truly is. She will be as an angel, and will, in her beauty, “amaze the place / With holier light!” The entire world will be stunned to see her and Dupin will finally have the recognition she deserves. The reader’s of literature, and the promoters of gender norms, will see that “woman’s claim” on writing is just as strong as...
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born in 1806 in Durham, England. She was the firstborn out of twelve children, was educated at home through the works of Milton and Shakespeare. She also began writing poetry at a young age, finishing her first epic poemat the age of twelve. Browning also suffered from a number of maladies from a young age, particular...
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Mar 29, 2024 · Sand was reputed to have had many relationships with her contemporaries, including composer Frédéric Chopin, writer Prosper Mérimée, novelist and co-writer Jules Sandeau and actress Marie Dorval. In her literary career, Sand’s success was outstanding in France and abroad amongst both male and female writers.
Mar 31, 2022 · 5.1 Premise. George Sand is essentially our contemporary. This no audacious statement. It is simply a matter of recognising the genius of an anticipator, opening up a sense of closeness, of reassuring commonality, leading, perhaps beyond the commonplace and beyond the legends regarding a woman remembered because her ‘clothes’ gave rise to ...
