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This is the first book ever to be written about the relationship between Flauberts writing and pictorial art. Flauberts 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 Flauberts 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.

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`Well researched and through provoking, this is the first book devoted to the complex relationship between Flaubert's writing and the pictorial arts.' C.B. Kerr, CHOICE Nov.2000, Vol.38, No.3. `Tooke adds a new dimension to the understanding of the very fiber of Falubert's writing.' C.B. Kerr, CHOICE Nov.2000, Vol.38, No.3.

pertinacious and deeply attentive study Julian Barnes, TLS In Flaubert and the Pictorial Arts, Tooke addresses such matters of image into text with a generous and lucid intelligence. Julian Barnes, TLS

`Well researched and through provoking, this is the first book devoted to the complex relationship between Flaubert's writing and the pictorial arts.' C.B. Kerr, CHOICE Nov.2000, Vol.38, No.3. `Tooke adds a new dimension to the understanding of the very fiber of Falubert's writing.' C.B. Kerr, CHOICE Nov.2000, Vol.38, No.3.

pertinacious and deeply attentive study Julian Barnes, TLS In Flaubert and the Pictorial Arts, Tooke addresses such matters of image into text with a generous and lucid intelligence. Julian Barnes, TLS

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Adrianne Tooke is Lecturer in French, Somerville College, Oxford

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