This novel achieved immediate notoriety through its questioning of marriage, sex and the role of women. Stephen Heath shows how this landmark text captures and articulates a fundamental experience of the postromantic, commerical-industrial, democratic period. He explains how Madame Bovary represents Flaubert's intense personal engagement with the tragedy of bourgeois culture, while at the same time exemplifying the author's commitment to the impersonality of art and the transcendence of style.
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"Heath's study is a distinguished addition to the Landmarks of World Literature series. It is lucidly written, persuasively argued and clearly presented. It makes a splendid companion volume to Flaubert's masterpiece." Robert T. Denommé, French Review
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In addition to representing Flaubert's intense personal engagement with the tragedy of bourgeois culture, the controversial novel is viewed as an example of the author's commitment to the impersonality of Art and the transcendence of style.
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Flaubert began writing Madame Bovary on the evening of 19 September 1851; on the last day of May 1856 he sent the final manuscript to his friend Maxime Du Camp for publication in the Revue de Paris. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
tout mentait, reasonable book, free indirect style, provincial woman, style indirect libre, narrating voice, provincial life, agricultural show Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Flaubert began writing Madame Bovary on the evening of 19 September 1851; on the last day of May 1856 he sent the final manuscript to his friend Maxime Du Camp for publication in the Revue de Paris. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
tout mentait, reasonable book, free indirect style, provincial woman, style indirect libre, narrating voice, provincial life, agricultural show Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Emma Bovary, Revue de Paris, Madame Homais, Leroyer de Chantepie, George Sand, Les Bertaux, Louise Colet, Louise Pradier, Second Empire New!
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- Louis Lambert by Honoré de Balzac in Front Matter, and page 109
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- Les Burgraves by Victor Hugo in Front Matter, and page 10
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- The Dangerous Potential of Reading: Readers & the Negotiation of Power in Selected Nineteenth-Century Narratives (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) by Ana-Isabel Aliaga-Buchenau in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Balzac: Old Goriot (Landmarks of World Literature) by David Bellos in Front Matter
- Madame Bovary: 150th Anniversary Edition (Signet Classics) by Gustave Flaubert in Front Matter
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