France exposed: Madame Bovary and the Exposition Universelle.(Book Review)

From: The Modern Language Review | Date: October 1, 2004| Author: Green, Anne | Copyright information

France Exposed: Madame Bovary and the Exposition Universelle by Anne Green

The first part of this article examines recurrent features of the official reports, speeches, catalogues, and guidebooks generated by the 1855 Exposition Universelle, and argues that these texts seek to construct a vision of a new French identity. The second part analyses Madame Bovary in the light of this exhibition rhetoric, and argues that at key points in the novel Flaubert deliberately evokes...

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