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The complete online text of Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.

The enduring literary fame of Gustave Flaubert was established all at one go, in the course of a famous trial that simultaneously brought him success and scandal. In 1857, when Madame Bovary (translated 1881) was appearing in serial form, the imperial pr...

The French novelist Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) was one of the most important forces in creating the modern novel as a conscious art form and in launching, much against his will, the realistic school in France. Gustave Flaubert was born on Dec. 12, 1821...

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Born on December 12, 1821, Gustave Flaubert was the second son of Achille- Cleophas Flaubert, the chief physician of the main hospital in Rouen. The novelist's older brother, Achille, succeeded their father in the...

Madame Bovary is a novel by Gustave Flaubert that was attacked for obscenity by public prosecutors when it was first serialised in La Revue de Paris between 1 October 1856 and 15 December 1856, resulting in a trial in January 1857 that made it...

From long before the publication of Madame Bovary to the most current ethical debates, the question of conscience has polarized philosophers, theologians, physicians, politicians, writers, and the general public: is an absence of conscience a moral or mental disease? In the notorious judicial proceedings...

During his labor on "Madame Bovary," Gustave Flaubert wrote to a friend, "Everything should be done coldly, with poise." And in directing his film adaption of the novel, Claude Chabrol has followed the master's instructions to the letter. The veteran French filmmaker's treatment is...

On a warm June evening, the novelist Rick Moody sat on the floor of the placid backroom of the Ludlow Street bar Pianos, peeking out from beneath the brim of a porkpie hat at a shag-haired musician named Hannah Marcus. She was crooning about "dragon...

It’s raining Cinderellas at the Met—11 performances in a row of James Kudelka’s version, which was born in Toronto two years ago. (Kudelka was then artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada; now he’s its resident choreographer.) Presumably, A.B.T. thinks that Cinderella—any Cinderella—will sell...

In the following essay, Porter categorizes Madame Bovary according to the three main types of reading pleasure identified by Roland Barthes in The Pleasure of the Text. Following a Barthian analysis of Madame Bovary, Porter considers the work in relation to its "central theme of the duplicity of language. "

In the following essay, Thornton examines the sources of Emma Bovary 's fantasies in a conflation of fairy tales and romantic literature. He notes that "Flaubert presents Emma's fantasy life through a series of tableaux in which her imagination is associated with images of mirrors."

In the following excerpt, Wing argues that "the division between language and experience is a major concern of [Madame Bovary." He focuses on the problematic nature of the novel's narrative voice and structure, noting ways in which its "authority," or believability, is undermined.]

The main focus is on the conceptual elements of Flaubert's Madame Bovary, with secondary focus on Romanticism as presented by Wordsworth and Bronte - contrasts realism and romanticism.

Provides a summary and analysis of the novel Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert. GIves a character study of Emma Bovary. Describes her transformation in the story.

A literary essay discussing major themes and symbols in Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary."