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�An admirable ruse, indeed! To inspire in me the horror of females, only to throw it in my face and say: but this is what you are.�
The handsome, heroic heir to a vast estate, raised as a man to follow a man�s pursuits and to despise women, is devastated to learn at the age of seventeen that he is in fact a she. Gabriel courageously refuses to give up her male privileges, and her tragic struggle to work and fight and love in all the ways she knows how offers a window into the obstacles faced by George Sand, the prolific intellectual woman whom the popular press portrayed as a promiscuous, cigar-smoking oddity in trousers. �Strange that the most virile talent of our time should be a woman�s!� exclaimed a reviewer in 1838.
Kathleen Robin Hart�s introduction contextualizes the drama, discussing its relation to the theater of Sand�s day, the sentimental tradition, the subversive workings of carnival and masquerade, and the vein of literary androgyny in Romantic works.
Kathleen Robin Hart�s introduction contextualizes the drama, discussing its relation to the theater of Sand�s day, the sentimental tradition, the subversive workings of carnival and masquerade, and the vein of literary androgyny in Romantic works.
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