Madame Bovary

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Apart from their documented use thoughout history poisons were also mentioned in literature, for example in Shakespeare s Macbeth Double, double toil and trouble . . . Root of hemlock, digg d i th dark. . In Flaubert s Madame Bovary, the victim was famously poisoned by arsenic, and arsenic again featured in the poem Under Milk Wood, by Dylan Thomas, in which arsenic biscuits were mentioned. 

This element, perhaps more than any other, has long been associated with poisoning, especially of the homicidal and suicidal type. Thus Agatha Christie called one of her plays Arsenic and Old Lace and the author Gustave Flaubert had his character Emma Bovary use an arsenic compound to commit suicide in the novel Madame Bovary. This aspect of arsenic poisoning will be discussed in more detail in Chapter 9 (pp. 221-2). 

In his novel Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert describes the characteristics of arsenic poisoning in the suicide of Emma Bovary who has taken... 

Released from his unfulfilled literary life in Paris, Synge returned to Ireland, yet when he first went to Aran in 1898 his European sensibility accompanied him. In his baggage was a copy of Elaubert s Madame Bovary, an edition of Gabriel Rossetti s poems, and works by Swedenborg and the Breton ethnographer Pierre Loti. Synge had experienced the life of the urban flaneur the... 

Periodization. The trials of Flaubert s Madame Bovary and Baudelaire s Les fleurs du mal in 1857 serve as a convenient starting-point for modernism. 

On Flaubert s trial, see Dominick LaCapra, Madame Bovary on Trial (Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell University Press, 1982). Elisabeth Ladenson discusses both trials, along with other attempts to censor modernist literature, in Dirt for Art s Sake Books on Trial from Madame Bovary to Lolita (Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell University... 

Ladenson, Elisabeth. Dirt for Art s Sake Books on Trial from Madame Bovary to Lolita. Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell University Press, 2007. 

FLAUBERT Madame Bovary edited with a substantially new translation by Paul de Man... 

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