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Oxford University Press, Incorporated, Oxford
This book offers the first study of vision in the works of George Sand. It argues that, rather than rejecting reality in favour of the ideal, Sand integrates physical observation with internal forms of seeing such as the imagination and visionary...
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This book offers the first study of vision in the works of George Sand. It argues that, rather than rejecting reality in favour of the ideal, Sand integrates physical observation with internal forms of seeing such as the imagination and visionary insights. Cover -- Vision in the Novels of George Sand -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1: Realism and Introspection -- Sand and Realism -- The Mirror -- Fixity and Fluidity -- Internal Vision -- Lélia and Conceptual Vision -- The Failures of Introspection -- Envisioning Other Worlds -- Conclusion -- 2: The Visionary -- Sand and Early Nineteenth-Century Thought -- Transcending Time -- The Visionary and the Doxa -- Sand as Visionary -- Balzac's 'Voyants' -- 'La Société future' -- Reconciling Observation and Revelation -- The Later Visionary Figure -- Conclusion -- 3: The Visual Arts -- Realism and Painting -- Sand and the Visual Arts -- Sand's Art Criticism -- Early References to Painting -- Notional Ekphrasis -- Moral and Social Reconfiguration -- Painting and Consciousness -- The 'Sens Pittoresque' and Social Class -- Sand and the Reader -- Conclusion -- 4: Scientific Observation -- The Novel and Science -- The Critique of Introspection -- The Aims of Looking -- Nature as Spectacle -- Learning through Looking -- The Narrow Savant -- Seeing and Gender -- 'L'Artiste Naturaliste' -- La femme savante -- Questions of Representation -- Sand and Realism -- The Detail and the Whole -- Pantheism -- The Novelist as Scientist? -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Works by George Sand -- Works by other authors -- Secondary Sources -- Index.
