Where Flaubert Lies

This book offers crucial perspectives on the vexed question of chronology in Flaubert's work.

Publisher's note; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and conventions; Introduction; 1. The Flaubert dates; 2. The colours of time in the first Education sentimentale; 3. Conception, birth, death in Madame Bovary; 4. Heads and tails in Salammbô; 5. Two-timing in L'Education sentimentale; 6. The Hundred Days of Bouvard et Pécuchet; 7. Petit dictionnaire de Flaubert: Adolphe Schlésinger; Alfred/Frédéric; Auguste/Gustave; Bonaparte/Beauharnais; Emma/Emilie; Flaubert/Sophocle(s); Rose/Hortense; Conclusion; Diachronic and synchronic charts; Bibliography; Index.