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

The first comprehensive study in English on the Tentation de saint Antoine (1874), Flaubert’s Tentation is the first monograph to investigate Flaubert’s uses of multifarious intertexts – natural scientific and religious – as a ‘comparative anatomy’ of nineteenth-century France. The considerable interdisciplinary scholarship, especially in nineteenth-century natural sciences, that the book galvanises for its new reading required extensive primary research to be conducted over several years in Paris (at the Bibliothèque Nationale; at the Jardin des Plantes), work which could not have been undertaken without prior in-depth knowledge of Flaubert’s works and their historical and intellectual contexts.