Synopses & Reviews
This novel achieved 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 postromantic, commerical-industrial, democratic period. He explains how Madame Bovary represents Flaubert's intense personal engagement with the tragedy of bourgeois culture, while at the same time exemplifying the author's commitment to the impersonality of art and the transcendence of style.
Review
"Heath's study is a distinguished addition to the Landmarks of World Literature series. It is lucidly written, persuasively argued and clearly presented. It makes a splendid companion volume to Flaubert's masterpiece." Robert T. Denommé, French Review
Synopsis
Stephen Heath examines probably the most influential novel of the nineteenth century.
Synopsis
Stephen Heath shows how Madame Bovary with its questioning of the value of marriage and the role of women captures and articulates the experience of the post-romantic commercial-industrial, democratic period.