Subtitle: Writing for Her Life
Author: Isabelle Hoog Naginski
Subject: Literary Studies/Womens Studies/Biography
Paper ISBN 0-8135-1674-9
Cloth ISBN 0-8135-1640-4
Pages: 280 pp.

"This original and seminal study of George Sand's writing manages to both place Sand in the context of other major nineteenth-century writers and to define the specificity of Sand's own work. . . . Naginski has both placed Sand in the canon and constituted the canon of Sand's works. . . an essential guide to Sand's place and to her originality. Her numerous insights force the reader to view Sand's works in a new light. This book will definitely be 'incontournable.' "--George Sand Studies

'[Naginski] sets the record straight, belatedly bestowing upon Sand the academic acclaim that is long past due."--Library Journal

"Focuses on a selection of Sand's major novels written in the 1840s and 1850s. . . . The book is well formulated and is enjoyable to read. It will appeal to those interested in Romanticism, to those who are lovers of the nineteenth-century novel and to all feminists."--French Studies

"Mines new fields of Sand scholarship while asking brave and sweeping questions about the nature of literary evaluation . . . essential reading for any studies dealing with George Sand."--Studies in the Novel

"Compelling and original . . . [a] solidly argued and worthwhile study."--Belles Lettres

Isabelle Hoog Naginski is associate professor of French at Tufts University.