Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 249 g
'Salammb ' Reassessed
Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 249 g
ISBN: 978-0-521-15522-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
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 Salammbô, 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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Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Flaubert and historical fiction; 2. Flaubert and the historians; 3. The genesis and development of Salammbô 4. Salammbô and nineteenth-century French society; 5. Political and economic parallels; 6. Religion and mythology in Salammbô Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.
