Madame Bovary On Trial Dominick Lacapra National Endowment For The Humanities Open Book Program by Dominick Lacapra; National Endowment For The Humanities Open Book Program 9781501720017, 1501720015 instant download after payment.

In 1857, following the publication of Madame Bovary, Flaubert was charged with having committed an "outrage to public morality and religion." Dominick LaCapra, an intellectual historian with wide-ranging literary interests, here examines this remarkable trial. LaCapra draws on material from Flaubert’s correspondence, the work of literary critics, and Jean-Paul Sartre’s analysis of Flaubert. LaCapra maintains that Madame Bovary is at the intersection of the traditional and the modern novel, simultaneously invoking conventional expectations and subverting them.