Indiana (Oxford World's Classics)

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Translation, Note on the Text, Explanatory Notes, Chronology
© Sylvia Raphael 1994
Introduction, Select Bibliography © Naomi Schor 1994
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Sand, George, 1804–1876.
[Indiana. English]
Indiana / George Sand; translated by Sylvia Raphael; with an
introduction by Naomi Schor.
p.   cm.—(Oxford world’s classics)
1. France—Social life and customs—19th century—Fiction.
2. Man—woman relationships—France—Fiction. 3. Marriage—
France—Fiction. 4. Women—France—Fiction. I. Title. II. Series.
843′.8—dc20    PQ2404.A4    1994    94–621
ISBN 0–19–283797–4

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OXFORD WORLD’S CLASSICS

GEORGE SAND

Indiana

Translated by
SYLVIA RAPHAEL

With an Introduction by
NAOMI SCHOR

OXFORD WORLD’S CLASSICS

INDIANA

GEORGE SAND was born as Amantine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin on 1 July 1804. From her father’s death in 1808, she was raised at Nohant in Berry, France, which was her grandmother’s home and in which she herself would spend the greater part of her life, although she travelled widely and frequently stayed in Paris. A prolific writer of plays, short stories, novels, and journal articles, she published her first novel, Indiana, in 1832. Closely allied with major socialist thinkers in the years leading up to the revolution of 1848, she was distressed by the violence and brutality of the uprisings and sought in subsequent novels to reconcile socialist theory with the harsh teachings of experience. Her interest in music is strongly reflected in The Master Pipers, while her love of the countryside in the Berry and Bourbonnais regions of France, together with her desire to give permanence to local customs and beliefs, can be seen in her pastoral novels Little Fadette, The Devil’s Pool, and François the Foundling. She continued writing until her death in 1876.

SYLVIA RAPHAEL taught French language and literature at the universities of Glasgow and London, specializing in nineteenth-century literature. Her translations include Balzac’s Eugénie Grandet and La Cousine Bette, as well as Sand’s Mauprat and Madame de Staël’s Corinne.

NAOMI SCHOR is William Hanes Wannamaker Professor of Romance Studies and Literature at Duke University. Her publications include Reading in Detail: Aesthetics and the Feminine (1987) and George Sand and Idealism (1993).

CONTENTS

Introduction

Note on the Text

Select Bibliography

A Chronology of George Sand

INDIANA

Introduction

Preface to the 1832 Edition

Preface to the 1842 Edition

Explanatory Notes

INTRODUCTION

OF the many legends attached to George Sand’s name, one has particular relevance to the publication of Sand’s stunningly successful first novel, Indiana. Henry James, Sand’s perfidious admirer, puts it this way: ‘About this sudden entrance into literature, into philosophy, into rebellion . .