Madame Bovary on Trial

Author(s)
LaCapra, Dominick
Language
EnglishAbstract
In 1857, following the publication of Madame Bovary, Flaubert was charged with having committed an "outrage to public morality and religion." Dominick LaCapra, an intellectual historian with wide-ranging literary interests, here examines this remarkable trial. LaCapra draws on material from Flaubert’s correspondence, the work of literary critics, and Jean-Paul Sartre’s analysis of Flaubert. LaCapra maintains that Madame Bovary is at the intersection of the traditional and the modern novel, simultaneously invoking conventional expectations and subverting them.
Keywords
Literature: history and criticism; Legal history; European historyISBN
9781501720017, 9781501727986, 9781501720024, 9780801414770Publisher
Cornell University PressPublisher website
cornellpress.cornell.eduPublication date and place
Ithaca, 1986Imprint
Cornell University PressClassification
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
Legal history