"Valentine" de George Sandhistoire d'une femme abandonnée à son sort
ISSN: 1138-4573
Year of publication: 2012
Issue: 15-16
Pages: 87-102
Type: Article
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Abstract
Without feminist pretensions, George Sand gives manifest proofs of her deep worry for the progress of the woman. In Valentine the authoress wonders for the moral and social problems that the feminine sexuality carries and she presents different ways of experiencing it: the heroine, who is a pure woman, is opposed to her sister Louise, victim of a guilty sexuality. This analysis aims to determine how, because of a careless education, this second personage turns involuntarily into a new procuress. She triggers with her attitude a moral whirlwind of multiple consequences: the sentimental disorder that she provokes supposes a blow in the structure of a society still stifled under the rules of the Ancient Regime.