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  • George Sand’s Consuelo, Nineteenth-Century American Literature, and Pleasure-Writing

    Author(s):
    Gerard Holmes (see profile)
    Date:
    2022
    Subject(s):
    Improvisation (Music), Composition (Music), American literature, Nineteenth century, French literature, Academic writing
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    covid-19, Compositional improvisation, 19th-century American literature, 19th-century French literature, Precarity
    Permanent URL:
    https://doi.org/10.17613/egzk-rf21
    Abstract:
    In spring 2020, I finished my dissertation, on nineteenth-century American literature and improvisation, and decided to read for pleasure for a while. I had time in my hands, because - thanks to COVID - there were no jobs available. I'd set aside many books and essays while writing the dissertation. Among these were George Sand's novels Consuelo and The Countess von Rudolstadt. Reading Sand's novels, about an improvvisatrice's romantic and political adventures, had the strange effect of bringing me back to American literature, as I found traces of the novels', and Sand's, effects everywhere in the nineteenth-century US writers I'd been reading. Sand, who wrote fast and rather improvisationally herself, was also an inspiration to write scholarship fast and for pleasure, outside of the incentive structures of the tenure track.
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    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    12 months ago
    License:
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