This Norton Critical Edition of Gustave Flaubert's seminal novel represents a signifi-cant revision of its predecessor. The text,Eleanor Marx Aveling's translation as revised by Paul de Man, is accompanied by substantially re- vised and expanded explanatory annotations. Readers glimpse middle-class life in provincial France through twenty-one accompanying visuals, carefully selected from popular pub-lications of the time.
In January 1857 the French government prosecuted Flauberton immorality charges over the publication of Madame Bovary"This Norton Critical Edition is the only English edition in printto include the complete trial transcripts, which have been trans-lated by Bregtie Hartendorf-Wallach and annotated for under-graduate readers. A substantial selection of earlier versions of scenarios and scenes from the novel is included to allow stu-dents to follow Flaubert's struggle toward stylistic perfection.Additional context is provided by Flaubert's letters concerning Madame Bovary.
Sixteen critical essays, twelve of them new to the Second Edi-tion, address the novel's central themes. Among the authors are Charles Baudelaire, Mario Vargas Llosa, Erich Auerbach, Franco Moretti, Dominick LaCapra, Naomi Schor, and Jann Matlock.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.
【目录】
List of Illustrations
Introduction to the Second Edition
The Text of Madame Bovary
Translator's Note
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's Youth in Rouen]
[2. Charles on His Way to the Bertaux Farm]
[3. Emma at Tostes]
[4. Conversations at Vaubyessard]
[5. Emma and the Colored Window Panes at Vaubyessard]
[6. Leon after His First Encounter with Emma]
[7. Leon and Emma during the Evenings at Homais's House]
[8. Emma after the Departure of Leon]
[9. Emma's Happiness with Rodolphe]
[10. Emma and Rodolphe]
[11. Emma's Mystical Visions during Her Illness]
[12. Leon 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 Laon Laurent-Pichat
To Madame Maurice Schlesinger
Madame Bovary on Trial
Translator's Note (Bregtje Hartendorf-Wallach)
The Ministry of Justice against Gustave Flaubert
Critical Reception
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 Bovury]
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"
Stephen Heath [Provincial Manners in Madame Bovary]
Dominick LaCapra From Trial to Text
Jonathan D. 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 Stare From Madame Bovary Goes to the Movies
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