Where Flaubert Lies
Chronology, Mythology and History

This book offers crucial perspectives on the vexed question of chronology in Flaubert's work.

Claire Addison (Author)

9780521420167, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 31 May 1996

416 pages, 115 tables
22.5 x 14.7 x 2.8 cm, 0.608 kg

"Where Flaubert Lies is a serious, scholarly study which will appeal primarily to Flaubert specialists." Hope Christiansen, French Review

This book offers crucial perspectives on the vexed question of chronology in Flaubert's work. Critics have struggled long and hard with the apparent inconsistencies in his writing, but Claire Addison's study reveals that the situation is far more subtle, complex and intriguing than hitherto supposed. She argues that Flaubert's manipulation of dates is deliberate and that what have previously been dismissed as inadvertent errors are in fact evidence of the strong presence of Flaubert's family life, events in historical Europe and events in the life of his literary characters. This interesting reading goes far beyond what traditional methods of literary history allow us to perceive of the link between the life and work of the author.

Publisher's note
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and conventions
Introduction
1. The Flaubert dates
2. The colours of time in the first Education sentimentale
3. Conception, birth, death in Madame Bovary
4. Heads and tails in Salammbô
5. Two-timing in L'Education sentimentale
6. The Hundred Days of Bouvard et Pécuchet
7. Petit dictionnaire de Flaubert: Adolphe Schlésinger
Alfred/Frédéric
Auguste/Gustave
Bonaparte/Beauharnais
Emma/Emilie
Flaubert/Sophocle(s)
Rose/Hortense
Conclusion
Diachronic and synchronic charts
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK]