Madame Bovary (Routledge Revivals)

<p>Madame Bovary ranks among the world's most famous and widely read novels and has inspired numerous critical theories. First published in 1987 this study draws on both twentieth-century and traditional critical views to provide both students and scholars with a fresh analysis of the novel: its narrative techniques social background and underlying structures. By setting the novel in an historical context and exploring the ways in which it offers a hinge between romanticism and realism the book establishes a framework through which the reader can assess questions of narrative strategy of symbolic patterning and most importantly parody and pastiche. Throughout <i>Madame Bovary</i> Rosemary Lloyd argues a series of intertwining voices challenge assumptions about the nature of narrative and the relationship between reader and writer. </p> <p>This reissue will provoke and stimulate debate among students and lecturers in French and English literature for whom <i>Madame Bovary </i>is a key text in the development of the novel.</p>