George Sand and Autobiography

This book discusses George Sand's autobiographic Histoire de ma vie from a variety of perpectives - thematic, structural and stylistic - and examines the often contradictory images of the author/narrator that emerge, in particular, from Sand's confused and ambivalent attitude to her gender. At each point, Sand's intriguing work is placed in the context of modern autobiographical and feminist theory, and measured against the conventions of traditonal male autobiography. What emerges is a fascinatingly hybrid, androgenous text that combines different modes and voices, giving a unique access to the person of the author herself, both as she wished to appear and as she appears in spite of herself. Janet Hiddleston is a Lecturer in French and a fellow at St Hilda's College, Oxford. Her research interests centre on pre-twentieth century women's writing and has published on Madame de Lafayette.Hiddleston, Janet is the author of 'George Sand and Autobiography' with ISBN 9781900755252 and ISBN 1900755254.