Flaubert's Tentation : remapping nineteenth-century French histories of religion and science / Mary Orr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Orr, Mary, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880. Tentation de saint Antoine.

Flaubert, Gustave.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (365 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a comprehensive study in English of Flaubert's least well-known masterpiece, the final version of his 'Temptation of Saint Anthony' (1874). Mary Orr gives new readings of the seven tableaux in Temptation , and new ways of interpreting the work as a paradigm of 19th century French, and indeed European 'literary science'.

Contents:

Contents; Sources, Abbreviations, and Reference Matter; Introduction; Modern critical legacies; Remapping literary-critical and generic dialogues; Remapping forms and knowledge; PART I. THINKING RELIGION(S); The Egypt of St Anthony; Religion in the France of Flaubert; The Egypt of nineteenth-century France; 1. Description of Egypt; Geographies; Hagiographies; Semiologies; 2. Principalities and Powers; Turning the tables: 'Nebuchadnezzar's' feast; Gifts and knowledge: the 'Queen of Sheba'; 3. The Master Disciple; De-lionizing the Vita; Imitations of the Life of Christ

4. Statements of Faith(s)The universal 'Church'; Angles on vision; Remapping the holy in the land of new religions; PART II. SCIENCES OF THE GODS: GODS OF THE SCIENCES; The Alexandrian schools; The Muséum National; Ancients, antiquities, and archaeologies of knowledge; 5. A Comédie (sur)humaine; Remodelling Nature's gods; Hilarion's Egyptian doubles; Matters of life and death: new generations in geological time; 6. The Devil in the Detail; Transports of the imagination; Selective infinities; Transforming the demons: rethinking the genesis of Flaubert's Tentation; 7. Bones of Contention

Family resemblancesMarvellous and (m)any-headed monsters; Revelations or analogues in dialogue; Conclusions; Unities of composition; Literary transformisms; Remapping nineteenth-century French literary-critical terrains; Endnotes; Appendix 1: History of the Early Christian Church; Egypt as Part of the Roman Empire; Appendix 2: History of Nineteenth-Century France: State and Religion; Appendix 3: History of Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign, 1798-1901; Appendix 4: Key Dates for Franco-Egyptian Relations, 1802-1876; Appendix 5: History of Nineteenth-Century French Sciences and Scientific Institutes

ReferencesIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [314]-336) and index.

ISBN:

1-281-89964-X

0-19-155532-0

9786611899646

OCLC:

370908056