Flaubert's Tentation: Remapping Nineteenth-Century French Histories of Religion and Science

by Mary Orr

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199258589
• ISBN13: 9780199258581
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.6"