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Intertextuality and Influence | Lucas Malet | Though ML was familiar with the canonical English Victorian novelists (and, less usually, with Samuel Richardson
's Sir Charles Grandison, to whose great length she alludes with approval), those writers she acknowledged as influences... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lucas Malet | But the context is still the fashionable jungle. Mr Perry can conceive of no higher glory than wealth and social success, and is ruthless in pursuit of these for his daughter and thus himself. Fat... |
Literary responses | Alice Munro | The Selected Stories was hailed as an important literary event, and produced particularly interesting reviews from A. S. Byatt
and John Updike
. Byatt wrote that Munro was the equal of Chekhov
or de Maupassant |
Performance of text | Edna O'Brien | Madame Bovary, EOB
's stage adaptation of Flaubert
's novel, was produced at the Palace, Watford. Contemporary Authors. Gale Research. 65 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Michèle Roberts | The title story uses mud or muddy almost thirty times. MR
writes, as always, as a feminist; these stories occupy a borderline between the self-making of women and their appropriation into patriarchal stories. She enjoys... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Michèle Roberts | She dedicates this book for the muse this time, and explains that although it concerns purely fictional persons and events, it is in part inspired by Jean-Luc Steinmetz
's life of Mallarmé
, by Flaubert |
death | George Sand | Her death was reported widely in the press. Flaubert
allegedly wrote in a letter that [a]t her funeral I cried like an ass, Jack, Belinda. George Sand: A Woman’s Life Writ Large. Vintage. 10 |
Textual Production | George Sand | GS
earned a remarkable 130,000 francs from this book. Flaubert
earned only 3,300 francs for Madame Bovary. Jack, Belinda. George Sand: A Woman’s Life Writ Large. Vintage. 304 |
Textual Production | George Sand | During frequent trips to Paris, GS
made the acquaintance of admirers who included Gustave Flaubert
. She enjoyed a correspondence with Victor Hugo
, though the two never met. Jordan, Ruth. George Sand: A Biographical Portrait. Taplinger. 311, 313, 335 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ali Smith | The book's narrator is an unnamed, ungendered arborist in mourning for his or her unnamed, ungendered partner, a literary academic whose spectre lingers about the book both figuratively, in the form of unfinished lectures, and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Gertrude Stein | GS
began work on these short stories while she was translating Flaubert
's Trois contes as an exercise.They have been reprinted (in a single volume with Tender Buttons) in the Signet Classics series, with... |
Literary responses | Charlotte Yonge | Henry Sidgwick
compared this novel to Madame Bovary and concluded that Yonge was better than Flaubert
. Hayter, Alethea. Charlotte Yonge. Northcote House. 2 Athenæum. J. Lection. 1920 (1864): 209 |
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