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Sailing a Fragile Bark: Rewriting the Family and the Individual in Nineteenth-Century France
Within the nineteenth-century French family, collective cohesion and individual fulfillment often came into conflict, particularly for women. This article analyzes autobiographies, essays, and fiction by three successful women writers—George Sand, Marie d'Agoult, and Hortense Allart—to reveal t...
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| description | Within the nineteenth-century French family, collective cohesion and individual
fulfillment often came into conflict, particularly for women. This article analyzes
autobiographies, essays, and fiction by three successful women writers—George
Sand, Marie d'Agoult, and Hortense Allart—to reveal the different ways that they
highlighted this tension and how they proposed to resolve it. With the aid offeminist
literary theory, it is possible to read these authors' texts as serious critiques of
laws, social practices, and cultural constructs that restricted women's develop
ment and activities solely on the basis of their sex. The article argues that these
authors rewrote the family to enable women to become as fully realized individuals
as men, with the implication that such a transformation within the family would
entail a transformation ofpublic life as well and legitimize women's participation
in it. |
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highlighted this tension and how they proposed to resolve it. With the aid offeminist
literary theory, it is possible to read these authors' texts as serious critiques of
laws, social practices, and cultural constructs that restricted women's develop
ment and activities solely on the basis of their sex. The article argues that these
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