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Date: 20051101
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Textual hauntings; studies in Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Mauriac's Therese Desqueyroux.
Gallagher, Edward J.
Univ. Press of America
2005
134 pages
$24.00
Paperback
PQ2246
In this monograph, Gallagher examines the strikingly similar plot, characters, and themes in Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1857) and Francois Mauriac's Therese Desqueyroux (1927). In particular, he looks at issues of gender and sexuality; the uses of religion; the function of uncertainty; and the role of minor characters. In the final chapter, he ...
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