Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

Stephen Heath

earliest edition we have, 1992 Cambridge University Press, 1992 157 pages

Landmarks of world literature

"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 of women. Stephen Heath shows how this landmark text captures and definingly represents a fundamental experience of the post-romantic, commercial-industrial, emotional-democratic period. Drawing on the terms of Flaubert's intense reaction...

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