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Madame Bovary

Contents

  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction to the Second Edition
  • The Text of Madame Bovary
    • A Note on the Translation
    • Madame Bovary: Provincial Life
  • Contexts
  • Gustave Flaubert, Earlier Versions of Madame Bovary: Scenarios and Scenes
    • [The Earliest Known Outline]
    • [The Dance at Vaubyessard—First Outline]
    • [Projected Epilogue]
    • [1. Charles’ Youth in Rouen]
    • [2. Charles on His Way to Bertaux Farm]
    • [3. Emma at Tostes]
    • [4. Conversations at Vaubyessard]
    • [5. Emma and the Colored Window Panes at Vaubyessard]
    • [6. Léon after His First Encounter with Emma]
    • [7. Léon and Emma during the Evenings at Homais’s House]
    • [8. Emma after the Departure of Léon]
    • [9. Emma’s Happiness with Rodolphe]
    • [10. Emma and Rodolphe]
    • [11. Emma’s Mystical Visions during Her Illness]
    • [12. Léon in the Cathedral]
    • [13. Emma’s Final Reminiscences]
    • [14. Charles at Emma’s Deathbed]
    • [15. The Final Meeting Between Charles and Rodolphe]
  • Gustave Flaubert, Letters about Madame Bovary
    • To Louise Colet
    • To Léon Laurent-Pichat
    • To Madame Maurice Schlesinger
  • Madame Bovary on Trial
    • Translator’s Note (Bregtje Hartendorf-Wallach)
    • The Ministry of Justice against Gustave Flaubert
  • Criticism
    • Paul de Man, [Contemporary Critical Reception of Madame Bovary]
    • Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
    • Charles Baudelaire, Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
    • Henry James, [Style and Morality in Madame Bovary]
    • Mario Vargas Llosa, From The First Modern Novel
    • Erich Auerbach, On the Serious Imitation of the Everyday
    • Roland Barthes, The Reality Effect
    • Franco Moretti, "The Best Time We Ever Had"
    • Steven Heath, [Provincial Manners in Madame Bovary]
    • Dominick LaCapra, From Trial to Text
    • Jonathan Culler, From Flaubert: The Uses of Uncertainty
    • Richard Terdiman, From Discourse/Counter-Discourse: The Theory and Practice of Symbolic Resistance in Nineteenth-Century France
    • Naomi Schor, Restricted Thematics: Madame Bovary
    • Jann Matlock, From Censoring the Realist Gaze
    • Avital Ronell, From Crack Wars
    • Robert Stamm, From Madame Bovary Goes to the Movies
  • Gustave Flaubert: A Chronology
  • Selected Bibliography

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