Madame Bovary on Trial /
Dominick LaCapra.
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Madame Bovary on Trial; Contents; Preface; 1 A Problem in Reading; 2 The Trial; 3 From Trial to Text; 4 Flaubert's Projects: Pure Art and Carnivalization; 5 Dual Style; 6 Narrative Practice and Free Indirect Style; 7 Selected Passages; 8 Aspects of the Novel; 9 Conclusion; Index.
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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