Gustave Flaubert

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Standard Name: Flaubert, Gustave

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Textual Production Ethel M. Arnold
EA translated, from French to English, an edition of the Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev ’s letters to his friends in France, which included Gustave Flaubert , Émile Zola , Guy de Maupassant , and the...
Textual Features Natalie Clifford Barney
This volume announced the sapphic theme which became central to NCB 's work.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
The poems were inspired by various women—Liane de Pougy , Sarah Bernhardt , Princess Troubetzkoy (Amelia Reeves) , and others—thinly disguised...
Occupation Charles Baudelaire
Remembered largely for his poetry, whose early publication provoked a major crisis in censorship, CB also wrote important prose, especially criticism, and translated Edgar Allan Poe 's stories into French. As a literary and art...
Textual Production Sybille Bedford
She later mentioned two youthful pieces on social issues involving literature: one on the potential damage done by a cheap popular press, Baudelaire 's view of l'infâmie de l'imprimerie, and the other on the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Marjorie Bowen
MB credits British women novelists for modifying the methods of the great European novelists, noting in particular Dorothy Richardson 's perfection of the stream-of-consciousness technique. She draws a contrast between Dorothy Richardson 's Miriam and...
Publishing Mary Elizabeth Braddon
MEB published The Doctor's Wife serially in Temple Bar; this novel offered an anglicisation of and response to Flaubert 's Madame Bovary.
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. The Doctor’s Wife. Editor Pykett, Lyn, Oxford University Press, 1998.
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Intertextuality and Influence Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The antecedents of Braddon's work were both print and stage melodrama, and as her career progressed her work increasingly reflected the influence of French realists and naturalists: Flaubert , Balzac , and Zola .
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland, 1979.
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Intertextuality and Influence Christine Brooke-Rose
This sets out to explore the effects of various technological media on the novel genre. It begins with the apparent forcible entry into a story by Jane Austen of a great German contemporary of Austen:...
Textual Production Anita Brookner
In the early 1980s AB did a good deal of reviewing of literary works for the Times Literary Supplement.
Skinner, John. The Fictions of Anita Brookner: Illusions of Romance. Macmillan, 1992.
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In 1988 she edited her own selection, with introduction, of The Stories of Edith Wharton
Reception Willa Cather
This novel poses a challenge both to contemporary and to later conventions of gender morality—a fact reflected in the tendency of commentators to liken it to Flaubert 's Madame Bovary,
Cather, Willa. A Lost Lady. Virago, 2000.
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than which it...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Eva Figes
She considers the drama of ancient Greece and of the Renaissance, setting each in its historical context. After dealing with issues of religious belief, kingship, and the dead, she comes to that of women and...
Intertextuality and Influence Julia Constance Fletcher
The opening story, By Accident, is headed with a quotation from Flaubert , saying that nobody understands anyone.
Fleming, George. Little Stories About Women. Grant Richards, 1897.
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It depicts an upper-class woman, mortally injured with terrifying suddenness and arbitrariness at the beginning...
Intertextuality and Influence Sarah Grand
She again set her novel in her fictionalised version of Norwich, Morningquest. Of its three heroines, Angelica makes a moderately successful, though unconventional marriage to a man twenty years her senior to whom she...
Textual Features Violet Hunt
VH 's central character here is Phoebe Elles, described by Barbara Belford as a British version of Flaubert 's Madame Bovary.
Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster, 1990.
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Phoebe is unhappily married to (and soon leaves) her abusive husband Mortimer; looking...
Literary responses F. Tennyson Jesse
The novel's conclusion was immediately associated with the sensational Thompson -Bywaters murder case of 1922 (about which René Weis published a study in 1988).
Morgan, Elaine, and F. Tennyson Jesse. “Introduction”. A Pin to See the Peep Show, Virago, 1979.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Critics likened FTJ 's Julia Almond to Flaubert 's...

Timeline

1 October-15 December 1856: Gustave Flaubert serially published his first...

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1 October-15 December 1856

Gustave Flaubert serially published his first novel, Madame Bovary, in the Revue de Paris.
Steegmuller, Francis. Flaubert and Madame Bovary: A Double Portrait. Macmillan, 1968.
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Berg, William J., and Laurey Kramer Martin. Gustave Flaubert. Twayne, 1997.
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November 1869: Gustave Flaubert published L'Education S...

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November 1869

Gustave Flaubert published L'Education Sentimentale.
Berg, William J., and Laurey Kramer Martin. Gustave Flaubert. Twayne, 1997.
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Late 1884: Publisher Henry Vizetelly produced the first...

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Late 1884

Publisher Henry Vizetelly produced the first English translations of Émile Zola : the novels Nana and L'Assommoir.
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland, 1979.
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Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.

1886: Eleanor Marx, as Eleanor Marx Aveling, published...

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1886

Eleanor Marx , as Eleanor Marx Aveling, published her English translation of Gustave Flaubert 's Madame Bovary from the original French.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

Texts

Flaubert, Gustave. L’education sentimentale. Nelson, 1869.
Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary. Michel Lévy frères, 1857, 2 vols.
Flaubert, Gustave. Trois contes. G. Charpentier, 1877.