Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert is one of the most respected authors in European Literature. His work is especially known for the novel Madame Bovary. This paper will analyze the life and work of Flaubert, with a particular emphasis on the conflicting roles of 19th century women in the novel Madame Bovary. Biography Gustave Flaubert was born on December 12, 1821, in Rouen, France and died on May 8, 1880. He was the fourth child of a well-known and respected …showed first 75 words of 2091 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2091 total…rg and Martin, p.46. (9) Ibid., p.52. (10) Frederick Alfred Lubich, "The Parody of Romanticism: Quixotic Reflections in the Romantic Novel," European Romanticism: Literary Cross Currents, Modes, and Models, ed. Gerhart Hoffmeister (Detroit: Wayne State University Press,1990) pp.363-364. (11)Henry James, " Gustave Flaubert", Notes on Novelists (New York: Scribner's, 1914) pp.75-77. (12) Llosa, p.140. (13) Ibid., p.144. (14) Lubich, p.323. (15) Edmund Wilson, "Flaubert's Politics", The Triple Thinkers,(New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1938) pp.106-7. (16) Berg and Martin, p28. (17) Wilson, p106-107.