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Flaubert, Gustave

Barnes, Hazel Estella. Sartre and Flaubert. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1981. Useful, interesting synthesis of Sartre's ideas regarding Flaubert.

Brombert, Victor. The Novels of Flaubert. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966. Important critical study.

Donato, Eugenio. The Script of Decadence. Essays in the Fictions of Flaubert and the Poetic of Romanticism. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Brings Flaubert criticism up to date.

Ginsburg, Michal Peled. Flaubert Writing. A Study in Narrative Strategies. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1986. Highly critical discussion of Flaubert's narrative ability.

Greene, Anne. Flaubert and the Historical Novel: “Salammbo” Reassessed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Useful look at Flaubert's approach to the historical novel.

Lowe, Margaret. Towards the Real Flaubert. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984. Good modern study.

Roe, David. Gustav Flaubert. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1989. A study of Flaubert's life and work, with a reading of his major novels.

Sartre, Jean-Paul. The Family Idiot: Gustav Flaubert 1825-57. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1981-1993. Translated by C. Cosman. Intellectual exploration, combining biography, autobiography, philosophical study, and literary criticism.

Starkie, Enid. Flaubert the Master. A Critical and Biographical Study (1856-1880). London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971. Looks at Flaubert's work in the context of his life, treating each novel individually.

Steegmuller, Francis. Flaubert and “Madame Bovary”. London: Constable, Eminent critical study of Flaubert's life and work, and how Madame Bovary affected his career (originally published in 1939).