num_pages: 576
description: Librarian note: This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780393979176.Margaret Cohen's careful editorial revision modernizes and renews Flaubert's stylistic masterpiece. In addition, Cohen has added to the Second Edition a new introduction, substantially new annotations, and twenty-one striking images, including photographs and engravings, that inform students' understanding of middle-class life in nineteenth-century provincial France. In Madame Bovary, Flaubert created a cogent counter discourse that exposed and resisted the dominant intellectual and social ideologies of his age. The novel's subversion of conventional moral norms inevitably created controversy and eventually led to Flaubert's prosecution by the French government on charges of offending public and religious morality. This Norton edition is the only one available that includes the complete manuscript from Flaubert's 1857 trial. Criticism includes sixteen studies regarding the novel's central themes, twelve of them new to the Second Edition, including essays by Charles Baudelaire, Henry James, Roland Barthes, Jonathan Culler, and Naomi Schor. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.
language: English
title: Madame Bovary
titlecomplete: Madame Bovary (Critical Editions)
characters: Berthe Bovary, Charles Bovary, Rodolphe Boulanger, Emma Bovary, Monsieur Homais, Léon Dupuis
genres: Historical Fiction, French Literature, Novels, Literature, Classic Literature, Classics, Romance, Fiction, 19th Century, France
ratings_count: 322009
places: Yonville-l'Abbaye, France, Tostes, Rouen
publisher: W.W. Norton & Company