This is the first book ever to be written about the relationship between Flauberts writing and pictorial art. Flaubert's responses to a wide range of pictorial images, from classical to popular, were both powerful and ambivalent, with insights, in many instances, of an extraordinary modernity, and intuitions of an art of the future. This study traces the processes by which pictorial art penetrates the very fibre of Flaubert's writing. Viewed by Flaubert as the sister art, pictorial art is for him both rival and foil. This study casts significant new light on the poetic system of a major writer, and adds a new dimension to the study of the literary and aesthetic sensibilities of the mid-nineteenth century.
Introduction I. Flaubert and the Image: A General View Images, Memory, and the Imagination Text and Image II. A Pictorial Education: Flauberts Travel Years Art Commentaries (I): 18401848 Art Commentaries (II): The Voyage en Orient, 18491851 Nature into Art: Travel Descriptions and Pictorialist Models III. The Mature Years: The Role of the Pictorial in Flaubert's Major Works of Fiction Bouvard et P?cuchet: Peinture, the Missing Chapter Figural Sources and Models The Power of the Image Conclusion Appendices Bibliography Index
Adrianne Tooke is Lecturer in French, Somerville College, Oxford
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