MA Issues in Modern Culture Reading List 20-21.Pdf
M.A. Issues in Modern Culture Reading List 2020–21 AUTHORS AUTUMN TERM 1. Gustave Flaubert Dr Scarlett Baron Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary [1857], trans. Margaret Mauldon (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008). Gustave Flaubert, ‘A Simple Heart’, in Three Tales [1877], trans. A.J. Krailsheimer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991). Gustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Received Ideas [1913], in Bouvard and Pécuchet, with the Dictionary of Received Ideas, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977). Further Reading: Gustave Flaubert, Selected Letters, trans. Geoffrey Wall (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1997). Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot (London: Jonathan Cape, 1984) Jonathan Culler, Flaubert: The Uses of Uncertainty (London: Paul Elek, 1974). Stephen Heath, Flaubert: Madame Bovary (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992). Christopher Prendergast, The Order of Mimesis: Balzac, Stendhal, Nerval, Flaubert (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986). Francis Steegmuller, Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour [1972] (Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1996). Geoffrey Wall, Flaubert: A Life (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001). Tim Unwin (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Flaubert (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). Jennifer Yee, The Colonial Comedy: Imperialism in the French Realist Novel (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016). 2. Henry James Professor Philip Horne Henry James, The Golden Bowl (1904), ed. Ruth Bernard Yeazell (Penguin Classics, 2009) This contains the ‘Preface’ to the (only very slightly different) New York Edition version of the novel (1909); the other Prefaces (collected in The Art of the Novel, ed. R.P. Blackmur, 1934; now U. of Chicago Press) Henry James, ‘The Lesson of Balzac’ (1905) Available at: https://archive.org/details/questionourspee01jamegoog/page/n9/mode/2up Secondary Reading: Nicola Bradbury, Henry James: The Later Novels (Oxford University Press, 1979).
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