In the thirties, Sand still applies romantique mainly to settings, while romanesque is both a psychological and literary term; thirty years later, romantique has come to mean romanesque, but connects to the literary thirties - so Sand uses romanesque to defy the new positivism without seeming passé.
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Zanone, D. (2004). Romantiques ou romanesques ? Situer les romans de George Sand. Littérature, 134, 5-21. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/39325 (Original work published 2004)