Homais et Cie

Les dessous de Madame Bovary

by Steve Murphy

Book cover: Homais et Cie

Extent: 1054 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Literary Studies

Series: Etudes romantiques et dix-neuviemistes

Series volume number: 100, 3

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(June 2020)

ISBN: 9782406098560

Price: $68.00

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Hardback (Published)

(June 2020)

ISBN: 9782406098577

Price: $121.00

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Focusing on the historicity, the unrealistic effects, and the logics of desire and food in Madame Bovary, this volume explores what underlies these features. We uncover semantic networks in which Flaubert competes in inventiveness with perverts like Homais, who is at the heart of Yonville’s machinations and the author’s ambiguities.

  • By (author) Steve Murphy