SOURCE: "Economics as Lure in Madame Bovary," in Money: Lure, Lore, and Literature, edited by John Louis DiGaetani, Greenwood Press, 1994, pp. 163-74.
In the following essay, Reynaud examines the economic metaphors in Flaubert's Madame Bovary that relate to debt, borrowing, investing, and an entire system contaminated by fortune.
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