Madame Bovary and Catastrophism: Revolving narratives

This paper locates Madame Bovary within the scientific milieu of 1850s French society by reading Flaubert’s narrative as a Cuverian text. The French scientist Georges Cuvier, along with many of his contemporaries, formulated the catastrophist theory as a means of explaining the origins of the world....

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Main Author: Ruth Morris
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Institut des Textes & Manuscrits Modernes (ITEM) 2011-07-01
Series:Flaubert: Revue Critique et Génétique
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/flaubert/1327
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