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Flaubert: Writing the Masculine
Mary Orr
250 pages
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216x138mm
978-0-19-815969-8
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Hardback
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09 March 2000
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- Offers close readings of all Flaubert's major works
- Challenging both Baudelaire's famous assessment of Emma Bovary as 'masculine', and current theories about gender, this book offers a vital new understanding of how ideas of masculinity are constructed
- Makes a major contribution to gender studies.
Flaubert: Writing the Masculine offers a new approach to Flaubert's major writing and to gender studies as a whole. Through a combination of close reading with a knowledge of current gender studies and particular attention to the sociohistorical and legal contexts of nineteenth-century France, it examines the masculine in the six very different literary contexts which are Flaubert's fictions. His characters, male and female, are reassessed for their masculinity: Baudelaire's famous view of Emma Bovary as 'masculine', like other critical idées reçues which have propped up a canonical Flaubert, finds a new interpretation within the wider discussion of the book, as does the
term 'masculine' itself. While it is mostly Flaubert's men, both those who conform to patriarchy's models and the non-conformists, who offer new insights into masculine identities in crisis, the structures of society that endorse male statusDSlegal, social, institutional, and literary-criticalDSalso come under scrutiny. The book challenges the primacy of gendered terms over sex, and provides various methodological resources to further scholarship in French Studies, Gender Studies, and masculinities theory, arguing strongly for the adroitness of literature to formulate representations which are as relevant today as in Flaubert's time.Readership: Scholars and students of Flaubert and of nineteenth-century literature,
theory, and gender studies.
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Mary Orr, Professor of French, University of Exeter
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"Orr revitalises old arguments and wittily tests idées reçues ... This is a book not only for gender studies specialists, but for all readers of Flaubert." - Forum for Modern Language Studies "Mary Orr's reassessment of Flaubert's characters in light of power structures endorsing male status constitutes a valuable contribution to the body of scholarship. Her elucidation of historical and social contexts, combined with insightful intertextual analyses and a skillful methodological approach make for an engaging study." - Nineteenth-Century French Studies "This is a rigorous and persuasive piece of criticism." - Richard Parish, Times Higher Education Supplement
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Introduction
Madame Bovary
Salammbo
L'Éducation sentimentale
La Tentation de Saint Antoine
Trois Contes
Bouvard et Pécuchet
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
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