In Lubbock's reading of Madame Bovary (1921), through whose eyes is the story seen, and when does the author step out of Emma's consciousness to an outside view?
In Lubbock's reading (Ch. VI), Emma is made 'subjective' from her first entrance, so the reader sees through her eyes; the town of Yonville and its types are seen from the author's own higher vantage, which takes over when Emma's capacity to see fails; and Emma is seen once from the outside through her husband's eyes. The chapter names the shifts by what is shown (the townspeople; Charles), not by chapter or scene of the novel. This is a 1921 critic's reading of an 1857 novel; the novel itself was not read here.
In Lubbock's reading (Ch. VI), Emma is made 'subjective' from her first entrance, so the reader sees through her eyes; the town of Yonville and its types are seen from the author's own higher vantage, which takes over when Emma's capacity to see fails; and Emma is seen once from the outside through her husband's eyes. The chapter names the shifts by what is shown (the townspeople; Charles), not by chapter or scene of the novel. This is a 1921 critic's reading of an 1857 novel; the novel itself was not read here.
Curator qualifications: Three vantages and the trigger (Emma's capacity fails) are Lubbock's reading; Flaubert not read.
Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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