Madame Bovary (In Our Time)
1857 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the literary sensation caused by Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary. In January 1857 a man called Ernest Pinard stood up in a crowded courtroom and declared, “Art that observes no rule is no longer art; it is like a woman who disrobes completely. To impose the one rule of public decency on art is not to subjugate it but to honour it”.
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1857
- Crimean War (1853)
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- American Civil War (1861)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)