The Romances of George Sand - Softcover

Faktorovich, Anna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1937536688 ISBN 13: 9781937536688

Publisher: Anaphora Literary Press, 2021

Synopsis

The Romances of George Sand: takes the heroine from a childhood in the aristocracy amidst the Napoleonic Wars, to an unhappy early marriage and eventual divorce, to her careers as a country doctor, pharmacist, lawyer, and most successfully as a romance novelist. This is a story about the revolutions in a woman s heart as she goes through dozens of love affairs. It is also about George s involvement in violent, political revolutions of her time, including the July and June Revolutions and the 1848 Revolution; in the latter, she served as the unofficial Minister of Propaganda. The story is full of military battles, coup d etat maneuvers, duels, malevolent plots, infidelity, artistic discussions, monumental legal cases, and reflections on the nature of love, family, romance, rebellion, and femininity. The history behind each of the events depicted is researched with biographical precision, but liberty is taken with some events that have been contested by historians, including the lesbian affair George had with Marie Dorval and the identity of the real father of her second child. Students of literature and history will recognize many of the central characters, as George befriended Napoleon I and III, Alexander Dumas pere and fils, Frederic Chopin, Alfred de Musset, and a long list of other notables.

Contents: Introduction. Chapter 1: The Revolution and the Social Contract. Chapter 2: Conscription Service and the Fight for Legitimacy. Chapter 3: Escorting the Emperor. Chapter 4: The Spanish Excursion. Chapter 5: The Fateful Leopardo. Chapter 6: Imperial Divorce and the Fatal War with Russia. Chapter 7: The English Augustines Convent. Chapter 8: Independence and Confinement. Chapter 9: Casimir Dudevant. Chapter 10: Postpartum Depression. Chapter 11: A Change of Regimes and Aurelien de Seze. Chapter 12: The July Revolution and Jules Sandeau. Chapter 13: Fame and Mme. Marie Dorval. Chapter 14: Duels, Infidelity, and Alfred de Musset. Chapter 15: Mardi Gras and Pietro Pagello. Chapter 16: The Mammoth Trial, Divorce, and Michel de Bourges, or Everard. Chapter 17: A Decade with Frederic Chopin. Chapter 18: The 1848 Revolution and the Minister of Propaganda s Residential Lovers. Glossary of Names. Images.

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About the Author

Anna Faktorovich is the Director and Founder of the Anaphora Literary Press. She taught college English for three years before focusing entirely on publishing. She has a PhD in English Literature. She published two scholarly books: "Rebellion as Genre in the Novels of Scott, Dickens and Stevenson" (McFarland, 2013) and "The Formulas of Popular Fiction: Elements of Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Religious and Mystery Novels" (McFarland, 2014). She also completed two other scholarly books: "Gender Bias in Mystery and Romance Novel Publishing: Mimicking Masculinity and Femininity" and "Wendell Berry's New Agrarianism and Beyond," for which she received a Kentucky Historical Society fellowship. She previously won the MLA Bibliography and the Brown University Military Collection fellowships. She also published two poetry collections "Improvisational Arguments" (Fomite Press, 2011) and "Battle for Athens" (Anaphora, 2012), and a children s book "The Sloths and I" (Anaphora, 2013).

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Review

Here is a novel that will cheer readers through many a dreary night. The young George Sand, née Aurore, grows up as the French Revolution and Terror, Napolean s rise and fall, war, life in a convent but also in Parisian society all roll by, but not merely as background, since Aurore participates as a child, adolescent, nubile young woman (whom relatives try to marry off), and adult, who does marry, bears children, and has many (erotic) affairs (as does her husband, naturally). Hugo, Chopin, de Musset, and other well-known personages show up, as Sand writes and publishes her novels. For those readers who revel in precise historical detail and personal adventure, the handsomely designed and very nicely illustrated Romances of George Sand is a book you will relish. --Robert Hauptman, PhD, Editor, Journal of Information Ethics

Anna Faktorovich presents an original paradigm, which belies the usual myths about George Sand. Faktorovich creates believable scenes with lively dialogue from just one or two lines in Sands biography, thus energizing the role of the only major female novelist in the French Romantic Movement. The Romances of George Sand is a must-read for scholars who will understand the numerous insider jokes and for women interested in the historical pioneers of feminism. --Rosie Rosenzweig, Resident Scholar, Women s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University

About this edition

• Publisher: Anaphora Literary Press
• Publication date: 2021
• ISBN 10: 1937536688
• ISBN 13: 9781937536688
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 252