David A. Powell is professor of French in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Hofstra University. He is the author of "While the Music Lasts: The Representation of Music in the Works of George Sand" and has published critical editions of "Jacques" and "Indiana". His articles on Sand have appeared in "Etudes litteraires", "Romantic Review", and "George Sand Studies"; he has also published chapters in "George Sand: Intertextualite et polyphonie", "George Sand: Une ecriture experimentale", "George Sand. Pratiques et imaginaires de l'ecriture", "Novel Stages", "George Sand: Ecri...