The Cambridge Companion to Flaubert.(Book review)

Timothy Unwin, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Flaubert. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 234 pp. This rich, well-organized collection of essays examines a range of topics and offers a variety of perspectives through which to approach Flaubert's work. Timothy Unwin wisely places essays concerning biography and literary influences at the beginning and briefly introduces all that follows while considering the author's life in chapter 1.

Evoking Flaubert's apt designation as "the hermit of Croisset," Unwin discusses the author's quasi-religious devotion to ...

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