Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

by Stephen Heath

Book Overview

Madame Bovary was one of the most influential literary achievements of the nineteenth century and gained immediate notoriety through its questioning of marriage, sex, and the role of women. Stephen Heath shows how this landmark text captures and articulates a fundamental experience of the post-romantic, commercial-industrial, emotional-democratic period. He explains how Madame Bovary represents Flaubert's intense personal engagement with the tragedy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521314836
• ISBN13: 9780521314831
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.8"