This 1982 book offers an evaluation of one of Flaubert's major and
most controversial novels. Dr Green begins by discussing the
nineteenth-century debate about the relation between history and
fiction, and examines Flaubert's distinctive responses to it. Then,
through a detailed study of the manuscript plans for Salammbo, she
shows how Flaubert worked to develop a new kind of historical
novel. She shows the balance in his work between careful historical
research and imaginative reconstruction; she charts how he
modified, amplified, or omitted certain elements in the sources,
and suggests his reasons for doing so. The result is a case history
of the historical novelist's imagination at work, and one which
indicates illuminating perspectives with this area of research.
Instead of escaping into a vanished world of the past, Flaubert
drew on contemporary French social, political, and economic issues
in his recreation of a distant and decadent civilisation nearing
its end.
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