Madame Bovary on Trial

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Ithaca Cornell University Press 1986
• Subjects: European history; Legal history; Literature: history and criticism; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBF Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900; thema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues::LAZ Legal history
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• ISBN: 9780801414770; 9781501720017; 9781501720024; 9781501727986; e0ae-fe76
• Access: Open Access

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.