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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.
In Flaubert: Writing the Masculine Mary Orr offers a new approach to Flaubert's fiction and to the field of gender studies. Close readings of his six major works build towards a much wider picture, in which definitions of the masculine emerge from the complex context of nineteenth-century France and from current debates within gender studies. Various received ideas about Flaubert, his novels, patriarchy, realism, and the primacy of gender over sex are re-evaluated to show a writer aware of the logic and contradictions of male power.
From Goethe to Gide brings together twelve essays on canonical male writers (six French and six German) commissioned from leading specialists in Britain and North America. Working with the tools of feminist criticism, the authors demonstrate how feminist readings of these writers can illuminate far more than attitudes to women. They raise fundamental aesthetic questions regarding, creativity, genre, realism and canonicity and show how feminist criticism can revitalize debate on these much-read writers. These commissioned essays from individual specialists focus on Rousseau, Goethe, Schiller, Hoffmann, Stendhal, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Heine, Fontane, Zola, Kafka, Gide. The collection therefore foregrounds the major authors taught on British university BA courses in French and German who also shaped the dominant aesthetics, philosophy and bourgeois culture of European letters between 1770 and 1936. on these writers Unique in providing a comparative feminist reading of the aesthetics of canonical male works from the literatures of France and Germany, 1770-1936 Provides a major reassessment of some of the literary figures most studied in French and German courses around the world
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