Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary

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LANDMARKS OF WORLD LITERATURE GENERAL EDITOR: J.P. STERN This textbook series is ambitious in scope. It provides concise and lucid introductions to major works of world literature from classical antiquity to the twentieth century. It is not confined to any single literary tradition or génre, and will cumulatively form a substantial library of textbooks on somé of the most important and widely read literary masterpieces. Each book is devoted to a single work and provides a close reading of that text, as weil as a full account of its historical, cultural, and intellectual background, a discussion of its influence, and a guide to further reading. The contributors to the series give full consideration to the linguistic issues raised by each text, and, within the overall framework of the series, are given complete freedom in the choice of their critical method. Where the text is written in a language other than English, full account is taken of readers studying the text in English... Tovább

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LANDMARKS OF WORLD LITERATURE GENERAL EDITOR: J.P. STERN This textbook series is ambitious in scope. It provides concise and lucid introductions to major works of world literature from classical antiquity to the twentieth century. It is not confined to any single literary tradition or génre, and will cumulatively form a substantial library of textbooks on somé of the most important and widely read literary masterpieces. Each book is devoted to a single work and provides a close reading of that text, as weil as a full account of its historical, cultural, and intellectual background, a discussion of its influence, and a guide to further reading. The contributors to the series give full consideration to the linguistic issues raised by each text, and, within the overall framework of the series, are given complete freedom in the choice of their critical method. Where the text is written in a language other than English, full account is taken of readers studying the text in English translation. While critical j argon is avoided, important technical terminology is fully explained and thus this series will be genuinely accessible to students at all levels and to generál readers. MADAME BOVARY Madame Bovary was one of the most influential literary achievements of the nineteenth century and gained immediate notoriety through its questioning of marriage, sex, and the role ofwomen. Stephen Heath shows how this landmark text captures and definingly represents a fundamental experience of the postromantic, commercial-industrial, emotional-democratic period. Drawing on the terms of Flaubert's intense reaction against what was seen as the stifling mediocrity of bourgeois culture, he shows how an imagination of style and artistic impersonality comes to produce in the writing of Emma Bovary, the provinciai 'heroine', a new problematic version of both woman and art. Cover design by Dávid Deadman Vissza