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Oxford University Press, Incorporated, Oxford
The first comprehensive study in English of Flaubert's least well-known masterpiece, the final version of his Temptation of Saint Anthony (1874). Mary Orr gives new readings of the seven tableaux in Temptation, and new ways of interpreting the work...
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The first comprehensive study in English of Flaubert's least well-known masterpiece, the final version of his Temptation of Saint Anthony (1874). Mary Orr gives new readings of the seven tableaux in Temptation, and new ways of interpreting the work as a paradigm of nineteenth-century French, and indeed European, 'literary science'. Intro -- Contents -- Sources, Abbreviations, and Reference Matter -- Introduction -- Modern critical legacies -- Remapping literary-critical and generic dialogues -- Remapping forms and knowledge -- PART I. THINKING RELIGION(S) -- The Egypt of St Anthony -- Religion in the France of Flaubert -- The Egypt of nineteenth-century France -- 1. Description of Egypt -- Geographies -- Hagiographies -- Semiologies -- 2. Principalities and Powers -- Turning the tables: 'Nebuchadnezzar's' feast -- Gifts and knowledge: the 'Queen of Sheba' -- 3. The Master Disciple -- De-lionizing the Vita -- Imitations of the Life of Christ -- 4. Statements of Faith(s) -- The universal 'Church' -- Angles on vision -- Remapping the holy in the land of new religions -- PART II. SCIENCES OF THE GODS: GODS OF THE SCIENCES -- The Alexandrian schools -- The Muséum National -- Ancients, antiquities, and archaeologies of knowledge -- 5. A Comédie (sur)humaine -- Remodelling Nature's gods -- Hilarion's Egyptian doubles -- Matters of life and death: new generations in geological time -- 6. The Devil in the Detail -- Transports of the imagination -- Selective infinities -- Transforming the demons: rethinking the genesis of Flaubert's Tentation -- 7. Bones of Contention -- Family resemblances -- Marvellous and (m)any-headed monsters -- Revelations or analogues in dialogue -- Conclusions -- Unities of composition -- Literary transformisms -- Remapping nineteenth-century French literary-critical terrains -- Endnotes -- Appendix 1: History of the Early Christian Church -- Egypt as Part of the Roman Empire -- Appendix 2: History of Nineteenth-Century France: State and Religion -- Appendix 3: History of Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign, 1798-1901 -- Appendix 4: Key Dates for Franco-Egyptian Relations, 1802-1876.
