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Flaubert's Tentation - Remapping Nineteenth-Century French Histories of Religion and Science (Hardcover, New)
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Flaubert's Tentation - Remapping Nineteenth-Century French Histories of Religion and Science (Hardcover, New)
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This is the first comprehensive study in English of Flaubert's
least well-known masterpiece, the final version of his Temptation
of Saint Anthony (1874) which, thanks to Foucault, has the
reputation of being an arcane and erudite "fantastic library" or,
thanks to genetic criticism, is a "narrative" of Flaubert's
personal aesthetic ("oeuvre de toute ma vie"). By presuming instead
no prior knowledge of the text, its versions or its contexts, Mary
Orr provides new readings of the seven tableaux which comprise
Temptation, and new ways of interpreting the work as a whole,
whether the reader is a newcomer to Flaubert or a specialist.
Arguing that Flaubert was imagining his own epoch through the eyes
of a visionary saint in the fourth century AD, Orr elucidates the
dialogues between religion and science that are the dynamic of the
work for the first time. She also insists on the meticulous
accuracy and imaginative representations of the science of the
work, proposing--in the "remapping" analogy of her subtitle--that
Flaubert's Temptation is a paradigm of nineteenth-century French,
and indeed European, "literary science."
For nineteenth-century French and Flaubert specialists, this book
then challenges received critical wisdom on a number of fronts.
Through his unlikely protagonist-visionary, Flaubert's "realism,"
"anti-clericalism" and "orientalism" are all given new airings in
the religious and scientific evidence of the 1874 Temptation, as
indeed in his "temptation" to write the life of his times.
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