Flaubert's Tentation : remapping nineteenth-century French histories of religion and science

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'.