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Madame Bovary (Hardcover)
Gustave Flaubert; Translated by Eleanor Marx Aveling
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Madame Bovary (Paperback, New edition)
Gustave Flaubert; Translated by Eleanor Marx Aveling; Introduction by Roger Clark; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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With an Introduction by Roger Clark, University of Kent at
Canterbury. Translation by Eleanor Marx-Aveling. Castigated for
offending against public decency, Madame Bovary has rarely failed
to cause a storm. For Flaubert's contemporaries, the fascination
came from the novelist's meticulous account of provincial matters.
For the writer, subject matter was subordinate to his anguished
quest for aesthetic perfection. For his twentieth-century
successors the formal experiments that underpin Madame Bovary look
forward to the innovations of contemporary fiction. Flaubert's
protagonist in particular has never ceased to fascinate. Romantic
heroine or middle-class neurotic, flawed wife and mother or
passionate protester against the conventions of bourgeois society,
simultaneously the subject of Flaubert's admiration and the butt of
his irony - Emma Bovary remains one of the most enigmatic of
fictional creations. Flaubert's meticulous approach to the craft of
fiction, his portrayal of contemporary reality, his representation
of an unforgettable cast of characters make Madame Bovary one of
the major landmarks of modern fiction.
Margaret Cohen s careful editorial revision modernizes and renews
Flaubert s stylistic masterpiece. In addition, Cohen has added to
the Second Edition a new introduction, substantially new
annotations, and twenty-one striking images, including photographs
and engravings, that inform students understanding of middle-class
life in nineteenth-century provincial France. In Madame Bovary,
Flaubert created a cogent counter discourse that exposed and
resisted the dominant intellectual and social ideologies of his
age. The novel s subversion of conventional moral norms inevitably
created controversy and eventually led to Flaubert s prosecution by
the French government on charges of offending "public and religious
morality." This Norton edition is the only one available that
includes the complete manuscript from Flaubert s 1857 trial.
"Criticism" includes sixteen studies regarding the novel s central
themes, twelve of them new to the Second Edition, including essays
by Charles Baudelaire, Henry James, Roland Barthes, Jonathan
Culler, and Naomi Schor. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are
also included."
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