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Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-301), chronology, list of works, and index.

About this volume ; "L'Homme n'est rien: l'œuvre est tout" : on Gustave Flaubert ; The kindly misanthrope : a biographical sketch of Gustave Flaubert ; "J'ai toujours tache de vivre dans une tour d'ivoire" : Gustave Flaubert's life and times ; "Ce grand Trottoir roulant" : the critical reception of Gustave Flaubert / Tom Hubbard -- Anna Karenina : Tolstoy's polemic with Madame Bovary / Priscilla Meyer -- Orientalism, in theory, Salammbô and the Orient of style / Beryl F. Schlossman -- Memoirs of a madman / Germaine Greer -- The irony of irony in Madame Bovary / Vaheed Ramazani -- Flaubert in trans-medial and trans-national contexts : adapting and translating Madame Bovary / Elodie Laugt -- Reading Flaubert's first and second Education sentimentale / Leah Anderst -- Textual memory : L'Education sentimentale / Éric Le Calvez -- Seduction by story in Flaubert and Conrad / Mark Conroy -- Schizophrenia, revolution, and Trois contes / Kathryn Oliver Mills -- "Un cœur simple" : an uneventful narrative / Michael Sayeau -- Flaubert and the art of caricature / Michael Tilby -- Testament to disaster : philosophical perspectives on Bouvard et Pécuchet / Elizabeth Rottenberg -- Flaubert and modernism : the meaning of a book about nothing / Anthony J. Cascardi -- Chronology of Gustave Flaubert's life -- Works by Gustave Flaubert.

Provides an introduction to Gustave Flaubert and the critical discussions surrounding his work.