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Madame Bovary : patterns of provincial life / Gustave Flaubert ; translated from the French by Francis Steegmuller.
Van Pelt Library PQ2246.M2 E5 1993b
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LIBRA PQ2246.M2 E5 1993b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880.
- Series:
- Everyman's library ; 140.
- Everyman's library ; 140
- Standardized Title:
- Madame Bovary. English
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xxxviii, 330 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.
- Summary:
- The year 1857 propelled Flaubert into the law courts and into celebrity. It was not exactly the kind of celebrity he had wished for. 'Madame Bovary' had appeared serially in 'La Revue de Paris'. Now the imperial prosecutor was attacking the work for being offensive to religion and morality. Not only the seduction scenes, but the episodes dealing with religion and the description of Emma's death, came under direct censure. More than the subject, the general tone of the novel was denounced as immoral: the pervasive eroticism, the poetry of adultery, the so-called 'realism' of the style. Flaubert, excellently defended by his lawyer, was acquitted. The book was published soon after, benefiting from the advance courtroom publicity.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages xviii-xix).
- ISBN:
- 0679420312
- OCLC:
- 26930325
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