How was George Sand Read and Perceived by Her Polish Female Contemporaries?

Fournier Kiss, Corinne (21 October 2021). How was George Sand Read and Perceived by Her Polish Female Contemporaries? (Unpublished). In: Conference "The Sun and Her Planets. Around George Sand's Reception in Central and Eastern Europe". Warsaw, Poland. 20-22 October 2021.

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This paper presents some salient features of my last monograph, written in French and published in 2020 under the title "Germaine de Staël et George Sand en dialogue avec leurs consœurs polonaises" (and of which a Polish translation is forthcoming in December 2021). One of the most interesting (and unexpected) results of this research is undoubtedly the observation that George Sand’s reception by her female Polish contemporaries did not happen independently of the greater context of French women writers; it was paralleled, on the contrary, by a (re)discovery of Mme de Staël. As a rule and on a very original mode that seems to distinguish Sand’s Polish reception from all her other European receptions in the 1840s and 1850s, Sand was read, admired, criticized, and judged in a movement of continuity and complementarity with Mme de Staël.

More importantly, the systematic linking of the two women did not happen only on the level of an explicit critical reception (where both names appear very often together in reflections or critical texts produced by women), but also took place on the level, usually more difficult to identify because of the absence of their names, of their literary reception (that is, the influence of their respective works upon other female literary texts). Thanks to an analysis of some pages by Narczya Żmichowska, I will try to show that the potential influence of Sand and Staël can indeed be conjectured at various moments, but without always being possible to disentangle what could come from one author rather than the other.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Division/Institute:	06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of French Language and Literature
UniBE Contributor:	Fournier Kiss, Corinne
Subjects:	800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism > 840 French & related literatures 800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism > 890 Other literatures
Language:	English
Submitter:	Corinne Ingrid Fournier Kiss
Date Deposited:	05 Nov 2021 08:35
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 15:53
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/160355