Tony Williams (essay date 1992)
SOURCE: "Gender Stereotypes in Madame Bovary," in Forum for Modem Language Studies, Vol. XXVIII, No. 2, April, 1992, pp. 130-9.
[In the following essay, Williams discusses Flaubert's belief in the influence of cultural conditioning as a determinant of gender roles, pointing to motifs in Madame Bovary that illustrate the restricted and highly artificial role of women in a patriarchal society.]
Madame Bovary was put on trial when it was first published largely on account of its intense critical...
Source: Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism, ©1998 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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