Madame Bovary: A Norton Critical Edition

The text of this Norton Critical Edition is based on Eleanor Marx Aveling€s celebrated translation, revised by Paul de Man.

Margaret Cohen€s careful editorial revision modernizes and renews Flaubert€s stylistic masterpiece. In addition, Cohen has added to the Second Edition a new introduction, substantially new annotations, and twenty-one striking images, including photographs and engravings, that inform students€ understanding of middle-class life in nineteenth-century provincial France. In Madame Bovary, Flaubert created a cogent counter discourse that exposed and resisted the dominant intellectual and social ideologies of his age. The novel€s subversion of conventional moral norms inevitably created controversy and eventually led to Flaubert€s prosecution by the French government on charges of offending "public and religious morality." This Norton edition is the only one available that includes the complete manuscript from Flaubert€s 1857 trial. "Criticism" includes sixteen studies regarding the novel€s central themes, twelve of them new to the Second Edition, including essays by Charles Baudelaire, Henry James, Roland Barthes, Jonathan Culler, and Naomi Schor. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.