This book discusses George Sand's autobiographic Histoire de ma vie from a variety of perpectives - thematic, structural and stylistic - and examines the often contradictory images of the author/narrator that emerge, in particular, from Sand's confused and ambivalent attitude to her gender. At each point, Sand's intriguing work is placed in the context of modern autobiographical and feminist theory, and measured against the conventions of traditonal male autobiography. What emerges is a fascinatingly hybrid, androgenous text that combines different modes and voices, giving a unique access to...