Textual hauntings; studies in Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Mauriac's Therese Desqueyroux.(book)(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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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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