@article{1480535,
      recid = {1480535},
      author = {Winock, Michel, },
      title = {Flaubert /},
      pages = {1 online resource (528 p.) :},
      abstract = {Michel Winock's biography situates Gustave Flaubert's life  and work in France's century of great democratic  transition. Flaubert did not welcome the egalitarian  society predicted by Tocqueville. Wary of the masses, he  rejected the universal male suffrage hard won by the  Revolution of 1848, and he was exasperated by the nascent  socialism that promoted the collective to the detriment of  the individual. But above all, he hated the bourgeoisie.  Vulgar, ignorant, obsessed with material comforts,  impervious to beauty, the French middle class embodied for  Flaubert every vice of the democratic age. His loathing  became a fixation-and a source of literary inspiration.  Flaubert depicts a man whose personality, habits, and  thought are a stew of paradoxes. The author of Madame  Bovary and Sentimental Education spent his life inseparably  bound to solitude and melancholy, yet he enjoyed periodic  escapes from his "hole" in Croisset to pursue a variety of  pleasures: fervent friendships, society soirées, and a  whirlwind of literary and romantic encounters. He prided  himself on the impersonality of his writing, but he did not  hesitate to use material from his own life in his fiction.  Nowhere are Flaubert's contradictions more evident than in  his politics. An enemy of power who held no nostalgia for  the monarchy or the church, he was nonetheless hostile to  collectivist utopias. Despite declarations of the  timelessness and sacredness of Art, Flaubert could not  transcend the era he abominated. Rejecting the modern  world, he paradoxically became its celebrated chronicler  and the most modern writer of his time.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1480535},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674974470},
}