Author: Patrick Waddington
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Turgenev and George Sand--an Improbable Entente
Author: Patrick Waddington
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
George Sand and the Nineteenth-century Russian Love-triangle Novels
Author: Dawn D. Eidelman
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838752692
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Mauprat features Edmee, a self-actualizing "woman as hero" protagonist. Here the notion of "fiction of relationship" emerges, as male Russian authors created tragic, idealized woman characters who could never really live up to the "terrible perfection" with which they were endowed.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838752692
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Mauprat features Edmee, a self-actualizing "woman as hero" protagonist. Here the notion of "fiction of relationship" emerges, as male Russian authors created tragic, idealized woman characters who could never really live up to the "terrible perfection" with which they were endowed.
George Sand
Author: Elizabeth Harlan
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300130562
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
div George Sand was the most famous—and most scandalous—woman in nineteenth-century France. As a writer, she was enormously prolific—she wrote more than ninety novels, thirty-five plays, and thousands of pages of autobiography. She inspired writers as diverse as Flaubert and Proust but is often remembered for her love affairs with such figures as Musset and Chopin. Her affair with Chopin is the most notorious: their nine-year relationship ended in 1847 when Sand began to suspect that the composer had fallen in love with her daughter, Solange. Drawing on archival sources—much of it neglected by Sand’s previous biographers—Elizabeth Harlan examines the intertwined issues of maternity and identity that haunt Sand’s writing and defined her life. Why was Sand’s relationship with her daughter so fraught? Why was a woman so famous for her personal and literary audacity ultimately so conflicted about women’s liberation? In an effort to solve the riddle of Sand’s identity, Harlan examines a latticework of lives that include Solange, Sand’s mother and grandmother, and Sand’s own protagonists, whose stories amplify her own. /DIV
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300130562
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
div George Sand was the most famous—and most scandalous—woman in nineteenth-century France. As a writer, she was enormously prolific—she wrote more than ninety novels, thirty-five plays, and thousands of pages of autobiography. She inspired writers as diverse as Flaubert and Proust but is often remembered for her love affairs with such figures as Musset and Chopin. Her affair with Chopin is the most notorious: their nine-year relationship ended in 1847 when Sand began to suspect that the composer had fallen in love with her daughter, Solange. Drawing on archival sources—much of it neglected by Sand’s previous biographers—Elizabeth Harlan examines the intertwined issues of maternity and identity that haunt Sand’s writing and defined her life. Why was Sand’s relationship with her daughter so fraught? Why was a woman so famous for her personal and literary audacity ultimately so conflicted about women’s liberation? In an effort to solve the riddle of Sand’s identity, Harlan examines a latticework of lives that include Solange, Sand’s mother and grandmother, and Sand’s own protagonists, whose stories amplify her own. /DIV
The Europeans
Author: Orlando Figes
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1627792155
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
From the “master of historical narrative” (Financial Times), a dazzling, richly detailed, panoramic work—the first to document the genesis of a continent-wide European culture. The nineteenth century in Europe was a time of unprecedented artistic achievement. It was also the first age of cultural globalization—an epoch when mass communications and high-speed rail travel brought Europe together, overcoming the barriers of nationalism and facilitating the development of a truly European canon of artistic, musical, and literary works. By 1900, the same books were being read across the continent, the same paintings reproduced, the same music played in homes and heard in concert halls, the same operas performed in all the major theatres. Drawing from a wealth of documents, letters, and other archival materials, acclaimed historian Orlando Figes examines the interplay of money and art that made this unification possible. At the center of the book is a poignant love triangle: the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev; the Spanish prima donna Pauline Viardot, with whom Turgenev had a long and intimate relationship; and her husband Louis Viardot, an art critic, theater manager, and republican activist. Together, Turgenev and the Viardots acted as a kind of European cultural exchange—they either knew or crossed paths with Delacroix, Berlioz, Chopin, Brahms, Liszt, the Schumanns, Hugo, Flaubert, Dickens, and Dostoyevsky, among many other towering figures. As Figes observes, nearly all of civilization’s great advances have come during periods of heightened cosmopolitanism—when people, ideas, and artistic creations circulate freely between nations. Vivid and insightful, The Europeans shows how such cosmopolitan ferment shaped artistic traditions that came to dominate world culture.
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1627792155
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
From the “master of historical narrative” (Financial Times), a dazzling, richly detailed, panoramic work—the first to document the genesis of a continent-wide European culture. The nineteenth century in Europe was a time of unprecedented artistic achievement. It was also the first age of cultural globalization—an epoch when mass communications and high-speed rail travel brought Europe together, overcoming the barriers of nationalism and facilitating the development of a truly European canon of artistic, musical, and literary works. By 1900, the same books were being read across the continent, the same paintings reproduced, the same music played in homes and heard in concert halls, the same operas performed in all the major theatres. Drawing from a wealth of documents, letters, and other archival materials, acclaimed historian Orlando Figes examines the interplay of money and art that made this unification possible. At the center of the book is a poignant love triangle: the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev; the Spanish prima donna Pauline Viardot, with whom Turgenev had a long and intimate relationship; and her husband Louis Viardot, an art critic, theater manager, and republican activist. Together, Turgenev and the Viardots acted as a kind of European cultural exchange—they either knew or crossed paths with Delacroix, Berlioz, Chopin, Brahms, Liszt, the Schumanns, Hugo, Flaubert, Dickens, and Dostoyevsky, among many other towering figures. As Figes observes, nearly all of civilization’s great advances have come during periods of heightened cosmopolitanism—when people, ideas, and artistic creations circulate freely between nations. Vivid and insightful, The Europeans shows how such cosmopolitan ferment shaped artistic traditions that came to dominate world culture.
Turgenev and George Sand
Author: Patrick Waddington
Publisher: Victoria University Press
ISBN: 9780705507035
Category : Authors, French
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Publisher: Victoria University Press
ISBN: 9780705507035
Category : Authors, French
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Writers and Revolution
Author: Jonathan Beecher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108905234
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
Focusing on the efforts of nine European intellectuals, including Tocqueville, Flaubert and Marx, to make sense of 1848, Jonathan Beecher casts a fresh and engaging perspective on the experience and impact of the Revolution, and on why, within two generations, a democratic revolution had twice culminated in the dictatorship of a Napoleon.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108905234
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
Focusing on the efforts of nine European intellectuals, including Tocqueville, Flaubert and Marx, to make sense of 1848, Jonathan Beecher casts a fresh and engaging perspective on the experience and impact of the Revolution, and on why, within two generations, a democratic revolution had twice culminated in the dictatorship of a Napoleon.
George Sand
Author: Belinda Elizabeth Jack
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN: 9780679455011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
"Born Aurore Dupin in 1804, Sand became France's best-selling writer, rivaled in her day only by Victor Hugo - yet she was known as much for her excessive life as for her plays, stories, and enduring novels like Indiana, Lelia, and Mauprat." "The daughter of a prostitute and an aristocrat, great-granddaughter of the King of Poland, Sand grew up acutely aware of social injustice and prejudice. Convent-educated, she became a mischievous, flamboyant rebel at the center of French intellectual and artistic life." "Belinda Jack gives the full flavor of Sand's personality and delves beneath the surface of her life and her age, showing how her art both reflected and shaped her life. Here is a portrait of a remarkable writer - and an extraordinary woman."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN: 9780679455011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
"Born Aurore Dupin in 1804, Sand became France's best-selling writer, rivaled in her day only by Victor Hugo - yet she was known as much for her excessive life as for her plays, stories, and enduring novels like Indiana, Lelia, and Mauprat." "The daughter of a prostitute and an aristocrat, great-granddaughter of the King of Poland, Sand grew up acutely aware of social injustice and prejudice. Convent-educated, she became a mischievous, flamboyant rebel at the center of French intellectual and artistic life." "Belinda Jack gives the full flavor of Sand's personality and delves beneath the surface of her life and her age, showing how her art both reflected and shaped her life. Here is a portrait of a remarkable writer - and an extraordinary woman."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Story of My Life
Author: George Sand
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791405802
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1172
Book Description
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791405802
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1172
Book Description
Tolstoy
Author: Henri Troyat
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802137685
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
A biography of nineteenth-century Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, discussing his childhood and youth, his stint in the military, his discovery of Europe, his relationships, and his writing.
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802137685
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
A biography of nineteenth-century Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, discussing his childhood and youth, his stint in the military, his discovery of Europe, his relationships, and his writing.
Turgenev and England
Author: Patrick Waddington
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349034312
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349034312
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description