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Subject(s)

• Flaubert, Gustave 1821-1880 [Browse]
• Novelists, French—19th century—Biography [Browse]

Related name

• Le Calvez, Éric [Browse]

Series

Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 301 [More in this series]

Notes

"A Bruccoli Clark Layman book."

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-363) and index.

Contents

• Books by Gustave Flaubert
• Chronology
• Flaubert's yourth: 1821-1844. Home, school, and Élisa Schlésinger ; Early stories ; Flaubert's Intimate notebook ; Sartre on Flaubert's nervous attack
• A new life: 1844-1851. A tumultuous year: 1846 ; A journey and a revolution ; Writing La Tentation de saint Antoine ; Flaubert in the Middle East
• The years of Madame Bovary: 1851-1857. Writing Madame Bovary ; The end of the affair ; The trial of Madame Bovary ; Reception of Madame Bovary ; Critical views of Madame Bovary
• Salammbô and antiquity: 1857-1863. Research for a novel of the ancient world ; A purple novel ; Flaubert responds to his critics: the polemics of Salammbô ; Critical views of Salammbô
• L'Éducation sentimentale: 1863-1869. Sand as defender ; Critical views of L'Éducation sentimentale
• La Tentation de saint Antoine, a lifetime's work: 1870-1874. The legacy of Louis Bouihet ; The failure of Le Candidat ; Critical views of La Tentation de saint Antoine
• Final years: 1874-1880. Beginning Bouvard et Pécuchet ; The Commanville collapse ; Sand's death and Trois contes ; Last years ; Flaubert's death : Critical views of Trois contes and Bouvard et Pécuchet.

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ISBN

0787668389 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004010067

OCLC

58790137

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