Flaubert: Madame Bovary / Edition 1

by Stephen C. Heath

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521314831
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	04/09/1992
Series:	Landmarks of World Literature
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	180
Product dimensions:	5.04(w) x 7.76(h) x 0.51(d)

Table of Contents

Note on references; Chronology; Introduction; 1. Madame Bovary: composition and context; 2. Madame Bovary: novel and art; 3. Madame Bovary: sequels and effects.

Editorial Reviews

"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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