Bøker av Naomi Schor

A reanalysis of Sand's major writing, ranging from her early short stories to her later fiction, which identifies her writing as an example of an aesthetic mode often associated with femininity. The study compares Sand's place in the history of the realist novel to that of her male counterparts.

Who cares about details? We do, but it has not always been so. Secularization, the disciplining of society, the rise of consumerism have brought detail to the fore. This book provides ways of thinking about details and ornament in literature, art and architecture, and uncovering the unspoken but powerful ideologies that attached gender to details.