SCOPE: Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist whose works dealt with the subject of unrequited love. His novel Madame Bovary caused quite a disturbance among French society who considered his subject matter of adultery to be morally offensive. (Diamond, Encyclopedia of World Writers)  CIRCULATING BOOKS

Books of Gustave Flaubert’s works are listed in our on-line catalog under “Flaubert, Gustave,” and under individual titles.

Books written by and about Gustave Flaubert have the call number(s) PQ2249

Some representative books from the circulating collection located upstairs in the library are:

Prendergast, Christopher. The Order of Mimesis: Balzac, Stendhal, Nerval, Flaubert. 
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Roe, David. Gustave Flaubert. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989.

CRITICAL SOURCES

REF PN 451 .E53 2003 Encyclopedia of 19th and 20th Century World Writers

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS

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WEB SITES 

The Yahoo Guide to Literature 
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