NATALIE DATLOF is Director of Liaison and Creative Development, Hofstra University Cultural Center. She edited The George Sand Papers (Conference Proceedings, 1976 and 1978), and is Co-Editor-in-Chief of George Sand Studies.
JEANNE FUCHS is Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and Languages at Hofstra University. She has also been Associate Dean for Student Academic Affairs for four years. Her main research is in eighteenth-century French literature, and she is working on a book on Rousseau's La Nouvelle Heloise.
DAVID A. POWELL is Associate Dean for Student Academic Affairs and Assistant Professor of French at Hofstra University. He has published a book-length study and several journal articles on George Sand, as well as articles on other literary topics. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of George Sand Studies.

Preface
Keynote Address
"George Sand, Our Contemporary" by Henri Peyre
Special Address
"The Great Chain" by Marilyn French
Rustic Novels
Apprenticeship According to George Sand by Anne Berger
La Petite Fadette: A Pre-Feminist Dialectic of Tradition by Brigitte Lane
The Language of Loss in George Sand's Le Meunier d'Angibault by Wendell McClendon
François Comes of Age: Language, Culture and the Subject by Jane A. Nicholson
Lettres d'un voyageur
Imaginary and Symbolic Orders in "Sur Lavater et sur une maison déserte" by Mary Anne Garnett
Lettres d'un voyageur: Traveling with George Sand by Susan H. Léger
Autobiography
Positioning the Self in Autobiographical Writing: George Sand as Model for Marguerite Yourcenar by Peter Christensen
Histoire de ma vie: George Sand and Autobiography by Gita May
Aurore Inscribing Aurore: A Reading of "La Reine Coax" by Lynn Kettler Penrod
George Sand's Poetics of Autobiography by Marilyn Yalom
Text and Ideology
George Sand and the Romantic Sibyl by Marie-Jacques Hoog
Consuelo and La Comtesse de Rudolstadt: From Gothic Novel to Novel of Initiation by Isabelle Naginski
Consuelo and Porporino, or the Influence of Change by David A. Powell
Intertextuality:Valentine and La Princesse de Cléves by Lucy M. Schwartz
Political Affinities
Nanon: Novel of Revolution or Revolutionary Novel? by Nancy E. Rogers
Reasons of the Heart: George Sand, Flaubert and the Commune by Murray Sachs
Freedom Smuggler: George Sand and the German VorMÄrz by Gisela Schlientz
Sexual Politics
Elle et lui: Literary Idealization and the Censorship of Female Sexuality by Marie Diamond
Mademoiselle Merquem: De-Mythifying Woman by Rejecting the Law of the Father by Claude Holland
Healers in George Sand's Works by Annabelle M. Rea
The Divided Self in Lélia: The Effects of Dualism on the Feminine Psyche by Wendy Ann Ryden
La Petite Fadette: An Epicene Cautionary Tale by Maïr Verthuy
Contemporaries
George Sand and Alfred de Musset: Absolution through Art in La Confession d'un enfant de siècle by Jeanne Fuchs
George Sand's Multiple Appearences in Balzac's La Muse du département by Janis Glasgow
George Sand's Reception in Russia: The Case of Elena Gan by Kevin J. McKenna
George Sand and Flaubert: Inspiration and Divergence by Mary Rice
The Important, Little-Known Friendship of George Sand and Alexandre Dumas fils by Eve Sourian
Two Monologues from Dialectic of the Heart by Alex Szogyi
Fanny Lewald and George Sand: Eine Lebensfrage and Indiana by Margaret E. Ward and Karen Storz
Selected Bibliography
Indexes

Bringing together a variety of critical approaches and interdisciplinary perspectives, this work reflects the continuing vitality and breadth of George Sand scholarship around the world. It contains twenty-eight papers and a keynote address presented at the Seventh International George Sand Conference. Contributors include leading European, American, and Asian scholars in the field.
The volume opens with essays by Henri Peyre and Marilyn French focusing on George Sand's relation to her own period and society and her continuing relevance to modern readers. The next three sections are devoted to an examination of Sand's work in specific genres: the novel, travel writing, and autobiography. Other subject areas addressed include the relation of text to personal ideology, political views, and sexual politics and identity. The remaining chapters explore Sand's relationships with her contemporaries, including Alfred de Musset, Balzac, Flaubert, and Alexandre Dumas fils. Presenting the best in current scholarship in the field, this work will be of interest for studies and courses relating to nineteenth century women writers, French literature, women's studies, cultural and social history, and related subjects.