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Article: George Sand: Writing for Her Life.
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- The Romanic Review
- Article date:
- May 1, 1993
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New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1991. 281 pp. Professor Isabelle Naginski has given us one of the most provocative works on George Sand to date. Providing an invaluable exploration of the principal Sand texts, George Sand: Writing for Her Life also introduces important discussion on the place of the novel in mid-nineteenth-century France. Naginski's volume displays a solid scholarly underpinning, with 27 pages of easy-to-read, well-documented notes and a useful index; a bibliography would have been a helpful addition. Numerous quotations from a wide variety of texts, Sand's and others,' for the most part in the original and aptly translated by the author, ...