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After its succès de scandale in France in 1856, Flaubert's Madame Bovary was widely adapted, sometimes so closely they were dismissed as plagiarism yet they achieved canonical status in their national traditions. This study traces Madame Bovary's journey abroad and asks why the novel was given such import in foreign literatures.

European fiction --- Adultery in literature. --- Bovary, Emma (Fictitious character) --- History and criticism. --- Flaubert, Gustave, --- Characters --- Emma Bovary. --- Bovary, Emma (Fictitious character). --- Adultery in literature --- History and criticism --- Emma Bovary --- European literature. --- Sociology. --- Fiction. --- Literature, Modern --- European Literature. --- Gender Studies. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- European fiction - 19th century - History and criticism --- Flaubert, Gustave, - 1821-1880. - Madame Bovary --- Flaubert, Gustave, - 1821-1880 - Characters - Emma Bovary --- Flaubert, Gustave --- Flaubert, Gustave, - 1821-1880