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Author Amann, Elizabeth, author.

Title Importing Madame Bovary : the politics of adultery / Elizabeth Amann
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (276 pages)
Contents Exhuming Marguerite Gautier -- An Unbridled Bride -- A Marriage Sans-culotte -- On Tour -- Grafting
Summary After its succ̈es de scandale in France in 1856, Flaubert's Madame Bovary traveled across Europe leaving in its wake controversy, debate and a trail of imitations and rewritings. At times, these adaptations were so close that contemporaries dismissed them as plagiarisms; yet paradoxically the same novels achieved canonical status in their national traditions. This study traces Madame Bovary's journey abroad and seeks to understand why the novel was imported and given such import in foreign literatures. It shows how the French masterpiece became the centerpiece of a transnational reflection on political history and particularly the problem of revolution. In the process, Amann examines how the rewritings offer clues for reinterpreting Flaubert's work and the adultery novel as a genre
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880. Madame Bovary.
Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880 -- Characters -- Emma Bovary
SUBJECT Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880 fast
Madame Bovary (Flaubert, Gustave) fast
Subject European fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Adultery in literature.
Bovary, Emma (Fictitious character)
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Adultery in literature
Bovary, Emma (Fictitious character)
European fiction
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780312376147
0312376146
9781403976062
1403976066
1281366889
9781281366887
9781349536689
1349536687