Gustavus Flaubertus Bourgeoisophobus

Flaubert and the Bourgeois Mentality

von Alan Raitt

214 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

It is well known that Flaubert harboured an obsessive hatred of the bourgeois and his mentality which erupts constantly and explosively in his correspondence, informs large parts of the works set in his own time, Madame Bovary, L’Éducation sentimentale, Un Cœur simple and Bouvard et Pécuchet and even overflows into Salammbô and his theatrical experiments. Since most of his thought and writing is so visibly and vitally affected by this obsession, it seems valuable to investigate its origins, its development and its significance for his art. That is the aim of this study which begins with a look at representations of the bourgeois in French literature before Flaubert and goes on to examine in detail what proves to be a more complex phenomenon than might at first sight appear.

• Reihe: Romanticism and after in France / Le Romantisme et après en France
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein 1800 bis 1900
• ISBN: 9783039103089
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.12.2004
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers