{"product_id":"the-countess-von-rudolstadt-paperback","title":"The Countess Von Rudolstadt - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeorge Sand\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGretchen Van Slyke\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first translation of \u003ci\u003eThe Countess von Rudolstadt\u003c\/i\u003e in more than a century brings to contemporary readers one of George Sand's most ambitious and engaging novels, hailed by many scholars of French literature as her masterpiece. Consuelo, or the Countess von Rudolstadt, born the penniless daughter of a Spanish gypsy, is transformed into an opera star by the great maestro Porpora. Her peregrinations throughout Europe (especially Vienna, Berlin, and the Bohemian forest), become a quest undertaken on a number of levels: as a singer, as a woman, and as an unwilling subject of alienation and oppression.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSand's heroine moves through a mid-eighteenth-century Europe where absolute rulers mingle with Enlightenment philosophers and gender-bending members of secret societies plot moral and political revolution. As the old order breaks down, she undergoes a series of grueling initiations into radically redefined notions of marriage and social organization. In a novel by equal measures philosophical and lurid, nothing is what it seems. Written some fifty years after the French Revolution, the book taps into many of the political and religious currents that contributed to that social upheaval--and aims to channel their potential for future change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFed by Sand's rich imagination and bold aspirations for social reform, \u003ci\u003eThe Countess von Rudolstadt\u003c\/i\u003e is a sinuous novel of initiation, continuing the coming of age tale of the titular heroine of Sand's earlier \u003ci\u003eConsuelo\u003c\/i\u003e and drawing on such diverse models as Ann Radcliffe's Gothic tales and Goethe's \u003ci\u003eWilhelm Meister\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGretchen van Slyke is Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Vermont.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 464\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.16 x 9.08 x 6.35 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 03, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757737967904,"sku":"9780812220148","price":53.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/5920d8b8d27ae9523dca279dc5d5b3e1.webp?v=1780110547","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-countess-von-rudolstadt-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}