Ginsburg, Michal Peled, Flaubert Writing: A Study in Narrative Strategies, Stanford University Press, 1986.

Ginsburg presents a penetrating analysis of the structure
and style of Flaubert's work.

Green, Anne, Flaubert and the Historical Novel, Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Green places the novel into its historical and cultural
context.

Knight, Diana, Flaubert and the Historical Novel, Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Knight presents a comprehensive psychological study
of Emma Bovary and compares her to Flaubert's
other characters.

Levin, Harry, The Gates of Horn: A Study of Five French Realists, Oxford University Press, 1963.

Levin places the novel in the realist tradition and
compares it to other works in this movement.