If lelia had been the first book by george sand i read, it would have been the last. It shocked contemporary readers with a heroine who, like sand herself, was an iconoclastic, intellectual woman who scorned societys rules. Find lelia english translation 0253333180 by george sand. The article discusses ageing and old age in three of george sands texts. George sand distinguait ellememe dans son livre une question. Sand also questioned monogamy, fidelity, and monastic celibacy.
Published in 1833, when sand was 29, it stunned victorians by advocating the same standard of morality for men and women and by suggesting that both the prostitute and the married woman were slaves to male desire. My heart has aged by twenty years and nothing in this life can make me smile ii. Download george sand s lelia for your kindle, tablet, ipad, pc or mobile. Sand loved the theater, and many of the monologues in this somewhat epistolary novel remind me of histrionic actors ranting from soapboxes. George sand sand, george, 18041876 the online books page. Fortunately, i started with the novels horace, then indiana, and the biographies. George sand est le pseudonyme damantine aurore lucile dupin, baronne dudevant. A drama in prose, with english notes and notice on george sand, london. Indiana by george sand 18041876, aka amandine lucille aurore dupin, baroness dudevant.
Lelia george sand descargar libropdf epubfreeditorial. All quotations from sand will be in english, but page references to corresponding french editions. Lelia, ou lheroine impossible etudes litteraires erudit. It took tremendous fortitude on my part to get through some of these letterspeeches. Lelia english translation 0253333180 by george sand.
The english poet elizabeth barrett browning 180661 wrote two poems. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. The american poet walt whitman cited sand s novel consuelo as a personal favorite, and the sequel to this. Independent and sensual, lelia has had many lovers. Amantine lucile aurore dupin best known by her pen name george sand was a french. Naomi schor female fetishism the case of george sand. Now repelled by physical passion, which represents the. Lelia tries to seduce stenio, a young poet who is in love with her.
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