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...”; Flaubert’s Nouembre and Education sendimentale; and Stendhal’s Vie de Henry Brulard and his various allusions to Rousseau. He ends with an incisive and untypically polemic critique of T. S. Eliot’s well-known negative views on Romanticism-a critique in which the kind of impassioned response...

...Patrick M. Bray Abstract This essay looks at Gustave Flaubert’s L’éducation sentimentale as a “literary-historical event,” that is, an event that becomes legible only by a literary text. Flaubert’s novel attempted to turn the ambiguous political events of 1848 and the coup d’état of Napoleon III...

...A. E. A. Naughton Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 FLAUBERT AND A RECURRING IMAGE By A. E. A. NAUGHTON In a recent study of Flaubert’s treatment of the theme of love, Germaine Mason has shown the unvarying uniformity...

...Spencer Lee-Lenfield Abstract General accounts of Gustave Flaubert’s influence on English-language writers have tended to assume that the publication of his fiction was enough to change the style of English prose. However, close examination of Flaubert’s reception in the second half...

...Louis R. Rossi Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 THE STRUCTURE OF FLAUBERT’S BOUVARD ET PECUCHET, VOL. I By LOUISR. ROSSI Flaubert’s novel is made up of a series of cycles, and each cycle consists of an account...

...Lauren M. E. Goodlad This essay connects the television series Mad Men to Anthony Trollope’s Prime Minister and Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary . All are serialized narratives of capitalist globalization in which motifs of exile articulate the experience of breached sovereignty in a modern world...

...Robert J. Nelson Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 MADAME BOVARY AS TRAGEDY By ROBERTJ. NELSON Whether we can assume that in this year of the centenary of Madame Bovary Flaubert continues to exert a shaping influence upon...

... in fiction by Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, and Doris Lessing. From the nineteenth century, though, besides Hardy, Matz takes as his points of departure the fiction and correspondence of Gustave Flaubert and novels by Samuel Butler, especially the utopian Erewhon and his...

..., Classe di Lettere, XCI, 1957. Pp. 623-687. Sergio Cigada presents here a critical bibliography of Flaubert studies in the ten years following the appearance of the SociCtC “Les Belles Lettres” edition of Flaubert‘s works (1945), prepared by RenC Dumesnil and containing...

... then lays the groundwork for the avant-garde and for high modernism. In short, a strongly invested construction of the aesthetic underlies the selection in The Rules ofArt of its representative moment, the later nineteenth century; its representative author, Flaubert; and its repre- sentative...

... observed. According to Flaubert, “There are three things required for happiness—good health, selŽshness, and stupidity—and without stupidity the others are useless.” Billy Budd was stupid. So, of course, were Dostoevsky’s Idiot and Wordsworth’s Idiot Boy. “I don’t know what...

... Seznec, “Preface”: (:harles (:arlut, “Intro~liictiori”:Jean Hytier, “Flaii- bert et la generation de Valery”; Gerniaine Hree, “Flaiit~ettet la ci-itique recente”; Jean Seznec, “Louise Colet et Flaubert 1,ondres”;Jacques Suf’f’el, “Quelques remarques sur la correspondance cte...

... best seller The Importance of Living or the more recent books of Marie Kondō). The superb follow-up chapter on Flaubert discusses links between Smiles’s working-class pedagogy and the French improvement literature that Flaubert researched in preparation for Bouvard and Pécuchet (1881), his last...

... Flaubert” ; Wallace Fowlie, “Petrouchka’s Wake” ; Fernand Baldensperger, “Les Petits Illogismes d’un grand romancier : une hypoth6se historique d’Aldous Huxley” ; W. K. Cornell, “The Case for Pierre Reverdy”; Bibliography of the Works of Albert Feuillerat. 487 488...

... to status made through the woodcuts was designed to reduce the anxiety that both the writer and the literary public must have felt when faced with the seemingly unsurpassable accomplishments of poets past. Among later writers, Flaubert provides a powerful example of the many problems one...

... l’kolier par les pieds, en le faisant tourner sur l’abime comme une fr~nde ‘Dernihes chansons . . . , avec une prCface de G. Flaubert (Paris, 1872)’ pp. 139-58. 2 L’Euvre de Victor Hugo, par M. Levaillant (Paris, 1931), p. 156 (Livre 110, ch. VI de Notre-Dame de Paris). 8 Ibid., p...

..., his antiphysis (so reminiscent of Baudelaire’s-as his obses- sion with matter relates him to Flaubert), the stickiness of immanence and the petrification in the En-soi, the viscous quality of sensuous ex- perience, the claustration in the realm of the imaginary, the snares of the past...

... force as long as crass and obnoxious bourgeois ordering of the world is around-which is likely to be a long time, as Flaubert implied when he wrote that Voltaire’s infhm, far from having 402 MIQI December 1997 been crushed, kept growing bigger and fatter...

... flourished throughout much of the nineteenth cen- tury. As John .J. Espey observes, Flaubert’s Carthaginian novel Sn- lninvibci greatly influenced the sexual ambience of Hiigh S~li~y)i Muubdey.4O He might well have added that it also greatly influenced Pound’s anti-Semitism. Drawing heavily...