Flaubert and the Historical Novel : 'Salammbo' Reassessed Hardback
by Green Anne Green
Hardback
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This 1982 book offers an evaluation of one of Flaubert's major and most controversial novels.
Dr Green begins by discussing the nineteenth-century debate about the relation between history and fiction, and examines Flaubert's distinctive responses to it.
Then, through a detailed study of the manuscript plans for Salammbo, she shows how Flaubert worked to develop a new kind of historical novel.
She shows the balance in his work between careful historical research and imaginative reconstruction; she charts how he modified, amplified, or omitted certain elements in the sources, and suggests his reasons for doing so.
The result is a case history of the historical novelist's imagination at work, and one which indicates illuminating perspectives with this area of research.
Instead of escaping into a vanished world of the past, Flaubert drew on contemporary French social, political, and economic issues in his recreation of a distant and decadent civilisation nearing its end.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:21/01/1982
- ISBN:9780521237659
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:21/01/1982
- ISBN:9780521237659
