Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Foreword vii
3. Contents ix
4. 1. Flaubert's Literary Temperament 1
5. 2. Madame Bovary: The Tragedy of Dreams 37
6. 3. Salammbô: The Epic of Immobility 92
7. 4. L’Éducation sentimentale: Profanation and the Permanence of Dreams 125
8. 5. La Tentation de saint Antoine: The Debaucheries of the Mind 186
9. 6. La Légende de saint Julien I’Hospitalier: The Sin of Existing 217
10. 7. Un Coeur simple: Tenderness and Irony 233
11. 8. Hérodias 246
12. 9. Bouvard et Pécuchet: The Tragicomedy of Intellect 258
13. 10. Epilogue 282
14. Bibliography 291
15. Index 299