Gustavus Flaubertus Bourgeoisophobus

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Gustavus Flaubertus Bourgeoisophobus is written by Alan William Raitt and published by Peter Lang Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0820472336 (ISBN 10) and 9780820472331 (ISBN 13).

It is well known that Flaubert harboured an obsessive hatred of the bourgeois and his mentality which erupts constantly and explosively in his correspondence, informs large parts of the works set in his own time, Madame Bovary, L'Education sentimentale, Un Coeur simple and Bouvard et Pecuchet and even overflows into Salammbo and his theatrical experiments. Since most of his thought and writing is so visibly and vitally affected by this obsession, it seems valuable to investigate its origins, its development and its significance for his art. That is the aim of this study which begins with a look at representations of the bourgeois in French literature before Flaubert and goes on to examine in detail what proves to be a more complex phenomenon than might at first sight appear.