SOURCE: Furst, Lilian R. “The Role of Food in Madame Bovary.” Orbis Litterarum, 34, no. 1 (1979): 53-65.
In the following essay, Furst examines the multiple functions of the detailed descriptions of food in Flaubert's Madame Bovary, including the use of food as a marker of social class.
This is a free excerpt of 47 words. There are 5,744 words (approx.
19 pages at 300 words per page) in the full critical essay.
Read the rest of this Criticism with our Food in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Critical Essay by Lilian R. Furst Access Pass.
