The Cambridge Companion to Flaubert (Cambridge Companions to Literature) PDF
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While a central placeisgiventoFlaubert’smostwidelyreadtexts,attentionisalsopaidtokey areasofthecorpusthathavetendedtobeoverlooked.Closetextualanalyses areaccompaniedbydiscussionofbroadertheoreticalissues,andbyaconsid- erationofFlaubert’splaceinthewidertraditionsthathebothinheritedand influenced.Theseessaysprovidenotonlyarobustcriticalframeworkforread- ersofFlaubert,butalsoafullerunderstandingofwhyhecontinuestoexert suchapowerfulinfluenceonliteratureandliterarystudiestoday.Aconclud- ingessaybytheprize-winningauthorMarioVargasLlosaexaminesFlaubert’s legacyfromthepointofviewofthemodernnovelist.TheCompanionincludes aninvaluablechronologyandbibliography. THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO FLAUBERT EDITED BY TIMOTHY UNWIN UniversityofBristol cambridge university press Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown,Singapore,SãoPaulo Cambridge University Press TheEdinburghBuilding,Cambridgecb22ru,UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521815512 © Cambridge University Press 2004 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexceptionandtotheprovisionof relevantcollectivelicensingagreements,noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplace withoutthewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. 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CONTENTS Notesoncontributors page vii Preface xi Chronology xiv Abbreviations, references and translations xvii 1 GustaveFlaubert,thehermitofCroisset 1 timothy unwin 2 Flaubert’splaceinliteraryhistory 14 michael tilby 3 Flaubert’searlywork 34 timothy unwin 4 Flaubert’stravelwritings 51 adrianne tooke 5 Flaubert’scorrespondence 67 rosemary lloyd 6 HistoryanditsrepresentationinFlaubert’swork 85 anne green 7 DeathandthepostmorteminFlaubert’sworks 105 mary orr 8 TheartofcharacterisationinFlaubert’sfiction 122 laurence m. porter v contents 9 ThestylisticachievementsofFlaubert’sfiction 145 alison finch 10 Thewritingprocess:scenarios,sketchesandroughdrafts 165 tony williams 11 Flaubertandthevisual 180 aime´e israel-pelletier 12 ThetheatreintheworkofFlaubert 196 alan raitt 13 Flaubert’sfailure 208 lawrence r. schehr 14 Flaubert,ourcontemporary 220 mario vargas llosa (Translatedby john king) Selectbibliography 225 Index 231 vi NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS alison finch isaSeniorResearchFellowinFrenchatChurchillCollege, Cambridge, and co-editor of French Studies. She is the author of Proust’s Additions(1977),Stendhal:‘LaChartreusedeParme’(1984),Concordance de Stendhal (1991), and Women’s Writing in Nineteenth-Century France (2000).SheiscurrentlywritingACulturalHistoryofFrenchLiteraturefor PolityPress. anne green is a Senior Lecturer in French at King’s College London. Shehaspublishedtwobooksonhistoricalfiction:FlaubertandtheHistor- ical Novel. ‘Salammboˆ’ Reassessed (1982) and Privileged Anonymity. The Writings of Madame de Lafayette (1996), as well as numerous articles on Flaubert. She is currently working on a book on Second Empire literature andastudyofFlaubert’sSousNapole´onIII. aime´e israel-pelletier is Associate Professor of French at the Uni- versity of Texas at Arlington. She is the author of Flaubert’s Straight and Suspect Saints. The Unity of ‘Trois Contes’ (1991). She has published arti- clesonRimbaudandImpressionism,thereader,andtherelationshipbetween poetryandmoney.ShehasalsowrittenontheComtessedeSe´gurandbicul- turalism. rosemary lloyd isRudyProfessorofFrenchandProfessorofGender Studies at Indiana University. She has published on Baudelaire, Flaubert, Mallarme´,childhoodandjealousy.HermostrecentbooksareMallarme´:the PoetandhisCircle(1999),Baudelaire’sWorld(2002)andOutoftheValley: Memoirs of an Australian Childhood (2003). She is currently completing a studyofwrittenstilllife. mary orr is Professor of Modern French Studies at the University of Exeter. Her recent publications include Intertextuality: Debates and Con- texts (2003) and Flaubert: Writing the Masculine (2000). Her current research projects include essays on male costume in Flaubert, a co-edited vii notes on contributors volumeoffeministreappraisalsofmalecanonicalwriters,andamonograph project to remap the history of ideas of nineteenth-century France through thelensofFlaubert’sLaTentationdesaintAntoine. laurence m. porter isProfessorofFrenchatMichiganStateUniver- sity.HisbooksincludeCriticalEssaysonGustaveFlaubert(1986),AGus- taveFlaubertEncyclopedia(2001),GustaveFlaubert’s‘MadameBovary’:A ReferenceGuide(withEugeneF.Gray,2002),andApproachestoTeaching Flaubert’s‘MadameBovary’(withEugeneF.Gray,1995).Heservesonthe EditorialorAdvisoryBoardsofNineteenth-CenturyFrenchStudies,Studies inTwentiethCenturyLiterature,andWomeninFrenchStudies. alan raitt isEmeritusProfessorofFrenchliteratureintheUniversityof Oxford, and an Emeritus Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. His publi- cations on Flaubert include a study of Trois Contes (1991), books entitled Flaubertetlethe´aˆtre(1998)andTheOriginalityof‘MadameBovary’(2002), andeditionsofL’EducationsentimentaleandthetextsthatFlaubertwrote abouthisfriendLouisBouilhet. lawrence r. schehr is Professor of French, Comparative Literature, and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois. His books include Flaubert and Sons (1986), The Shock of Men and Alcibiades at the Door(1995),RenderingFrenchRealismandPartsofanAndrology(1997), andFiguresofAlterity(2003).Heistheco-editorofArticulationsofDiffer- ence(1997)andFrenchFood(2001). michael tilby is Fellow in French at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He has published widely on a number of nineteenth-century French authors, especially Balzac, and is currently completing a study of the novels Balzac publishedunderpseudonymsinhisearlyyearsasawriter. adrianne tooke is Fellow and Tutor in French at Somerville College, Oxford, and Lecturer in the University of Oxford. She has worked exten- sivelyonFlaubert,inparticularonhistravelwritingandartcommentaries. In addition to numerous articles, her publications include a critical edition ofParleschampsetparlesgre`ves(1987),abookentitledFlaubertandthe PictorialArts(2000),andatranslationofandintroductiontoL’Education sentimentale. She is currently co-editing volumes three to five of Benjamin Constant’scorrespondence. timothy unwin is Professor of French at the University of Bristol. His publicationsonFlaubertincludeArtetinfini:l’œuvredejeunessedeGustave Flaubert (1991) an edition of three early stories (Trois Contes de jeunesse, 1981),andaneditionandtranslationofMe´moiresd’unfou(2001).Healso viii
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