Romanticism and After in France / Le Romantisme Et Après En: Flaubert's First Novel : A Study of the 1845 Éducation Sentimentale (Series #18) (Paperback)

L'Éducation sentimentale, begun in 1843 and finished after two substantial interruptions in 1845, was Flaubert's first attempt at a full-scale novel. Though overshadowed by the 1869 novel of the same title, it is a crucially important text in Flaubert's literary development. Alan Raitt provides a controversial new reading of the book's genesis and development, and addresses many of the misapprehensions that have grown up around this pivotal work.