This is the only ed. which includes the complete manuscripts from Flaubert's 1857 trial The text of this Norton Critical Edition is based on Eleanor Marx Aveling’s celebrated translation, revised by Paul de Man. List of Illustrations vii Introduction to the Second Edition ix Translator's Note 3(2) Madame Bovary: Provincial Life 5(274) Contexts Gustave Flaubert Earlier Versions of Madame Bovary: Scenarios and Scenes 279(21) The Earliest Known Outline 279(2) The Dance at Vaubyessard-First Outline 281(1) Projected Epilogue 282 1. Charles's Youth in Rouen 283(1) 2. Charles on His Way to the Bertaux Farm 284(1) 3. Emma at Tostes 284(1) 4. Conversations at Vaubyessard 285(3) 5. Emma and the Colored Window Panes at Vaubyessard 288(2) 6. Leon after His First Encounter with Emma 290(1) 7. Leon and Emma during the Evenings at Homais's House 291(1) 8. Emma after the Departure of Leon 292(2) 9. Emma's Happiness with Rodolphe 294(1) 10. Emma and Rodolphe 295(1) 11. Emma's Mystical Visions during Her Illness 296(1) 12. Leon in the Cathedral 297(1) 13. Emma's Final Reminiscences 297(1) 14. Charles at Emma's Deathbed 298(1) 15. The Final Meeting Between Charles and Rodolphe 298 Gustave Flaubert Letters about Madame Bovary 300(1) To Louise Colet 300(1) To Leon Laurent-Pichat 310(1) To Madame Maurice Schlesinger 311(1) Madame Bovary on Trial 313(1) Translator's Note (Bregtje Hartendorf-Wallach) 313(1) The Ministry of Justice against Gustave Flaubert 314(77) Critical Reception Paul de Man [Contemporary Critical Reception of Madame Bovary] 391(1) Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert 392(11) Charles Baudelaire Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert 403(8) Henry James [Style and Morality in Madame Bovary] 411(5) Mario Vargas Llosa From The First Modern Novel 416(7) Erich Auerbach On the Serious Imitation of the Everyday 423(26) Roland Barthes The Reality Effect 449(6) Franco Moretti The Best Time We Ever Had 455(6) Stephen Heath [Provincial Manners in Madame Bovary] 461(9) Dominick LaCapra From Trial to Text 470(9) Jonathan D. Culler From Flaubert: The Uses of Uncertainty 479(13) Richard Terdiman From Discourse/Counter-Discourse: The Theory and Practice of Symbolic Resistance in Nineteenth-Century France 492(7) Naomi Schor Restricted Thematics: Madame Bovary 499(13) Jann Matlock From Censoring the Realist Gaze 512(12) Avital Ronell From Crack Wars 524(11) Robert Stam From Madame Bovary Goes to the Movies 535(14) Gustave Flaubert: A Chronology 549(2) Selected Bibliography 551