Madame Bovary

by Flaubert, Gustave

• ISBN13: 9780393096088
• ISBN10: 0393096084
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1965-10-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Summary

The text of this Norton Critical Edition is based on Eleanor Marx Aveling's celebrated translation, revised by Paul de Man.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
The Text of Madame Bovary
A Note on the Translation	xvi
Madame Bovary	1	(258)
Backgrounds and Sources
Earlier Versions of Madame Bovary
Scenarios and Scenes
Gustave Flaubert
The Earliest Known Outline	259	(2)
The Dance at Vaubyessard---First Outline	261	(1)
Projected Epilogue	262	(1)
Charles's Youth in Rouen	263	(1)
Charles on His Way to the Bertaux Farm	264	(1)
Emma at Tostes	265	(1)
Conversations at Vaubyessard	265	(3)
Emma and the Colored Window Panes at Vaubyessard	268	(2)
Leon after His First Encounter with Emma	270	(1)
Leon and Emma During the Evenings at Homais's House	271	(1)
Emma after the Departure of Leon	272	(2)
Emma's Happiness with Rodolphe	274	(1)
Emma and Rodolphe	275	(1)
Emma's Mystical Visions During Her Illness	276	(1)
Leon in the Cathedral	277	(1)
Emma's Final Reminiscences	277	(1)
Charles at Emma's Deathbed	278	(1)
The Final Meeting Between Charles and Rodolphe	279	(1)
Structures of Imagery in Madame Bovary	280	(12)
D. L. Demorest
On Rereading Madame Bovary	292	(6)
Albert Beguin
Biographical Sources
The Real Source of Madame Bovary	298	(4)
Rene Dumesnil
Flaubert and Madame Bovary: Outline of a New Method	302	(23)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Letters About Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
To Louise Colet	309	(10)
To Leon Laurent-Pichat	319	(1)
To Madame Maurice Schlesinger	320	(5)
Essays in Criticism
Contemporary Reactions
Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert	325	(11)
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert	336	(8)
Charles Baudelaire
Stylistic Studies
Style and Morality in Madame Bovary	344	(5)
Henry James
The Craft of Fiction in Madame Bovary	349	(8)
Percy Lubbock
Flaubert's Language	357	(3)
W. Von Wartburg
Thematic Studies
On the ``Inner Environment'' in the Work of Flaubert	360	(11)
Charles du Bos
Madame Bovary	371	(12)
Albert Thibaudet
The Realism of Flaubert	383	(9)
Erich Auerbach
The Circle and the Center: Reality and Madame Bovary	392	(15)
Georges Poulet
Madame Bovary: The Cathedral and the Hospital	407	(19)
Harry Levin
Love and Memory in Madame Bovary	426	(13)
Jean Pierre Richard
Madame Bovary: Flaubert's Anti-Novel	439	(20)
Jean Rousset
Bibliography	459