"Cohen draws on archival research, resurrecting scores of forgotten nineteenth-century novels, to demonstrate that the codes most closely identified with realis
Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert translated by Robert Baldick (illustrated)The novel describes the life of a young man (Frédéric Moreau) living throu
The protagonist, Frederic Moreau, and his beloved, Mme Arnoux, are based on Flaubert's youthful infatuation with an older married woman. Frederic's puppy love f
From the summer of 1870 through the spring of 1871, France suffered a humiliating defeat in its war against Prussia and witnessed bloody class warfare that culm
The nineteenth-century French novel has long been seen as the heroic production of great men, who confronted in their works the social consequences of the Frenc