Gabriel: The Original French Text (MLA Texts & Translations (Paperback)) (Texts and Translations 28) - Softcover

Sand, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 160329077X ISBN 13: 9781603290777

Publisher: Modern Language Association of America, 2010

Synopsis

“An admirable ruse, indeed! To inspire in me the horror of females, only to throw it in my face and say: but this is what you are.”

The handsome, heroic heir to a vast estate, raised as a man to follow a man’s pursuits and to despise women, is devastated to learn at the age of seventeen that he is in fact a she. Gabriel courageously refuses to give up her male privileges, and her tragic struggle to work and fight and love in all the ways she knows how offers a window into the obstacles faced by George Sand, the prolific intellectual woman whom the popular press portrayed as a promiscuous, cigar-smoking oddity in trousers. “Strange that the most virile talent of our time should be a woman’s!” exclaimed a reviewer in 1838.

Kathleen Robin Hart’s introduction contextualizes the drama, discussing its relation to the theater of Sand’s day, the sentimental tradition, the subversive workings of carnival and masquerade, and the vein of literary androgyny in Romantic works.

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About the Author

Kathleen Robin Hart is associate professor of French and Francophone studies at Vassar College. Her publications include Revolution and Women's Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century France (Rodopi), articles, book reviews, and, with Paul Fenouillet, an English translation of George Sand's 1839 novel in dramatic form, Gabriel(Modern Language Association "Texts and Translations Series," 2010).

Edition details

• Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 160329077X
• ISBN 13: 9781603290777
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Hart Kathleen Robin