%A JIN Lu
%T Literary Representation of Fashion and the Birth of Modern Tragedy: Analyzing the
Modernity Connotation of Emma's Fate from the Angle of Clothing-writing
%0 Journal Article
%D 2022
%J Journal of Chaohu University
%R 10.12152/j.issn.1672-2868.2022.02.018
%P 137-144
%V 24
%N 2
%U {http://xb.chu.edu.cn/CN/abstract/article_580.shtml}
%8 2022-03-25
%X A lot of meticulous clothing-writing is used in Madame Bovary, which embodies Flaubert's cognition and
reflection on the fashion of French society in the early 19th century, and it is also a new perspective to analyze the
fate of Emma. As a literary representation of fashion, clothing-writing is the key to interpreting the modernity connotation of the novel. The transformation of French society in the period of modernization is manifested in the
change of people's aesthetic concepts and consumption behavior. Emma is in the process of modernization that has
never happened before, so her tragic fate has the special reason of the times. Flaubert, in Madame Bovary, vividly
shows the modernity connotation driven by material fashion behind the character's fate, and presents the dimension
of fashion showing people's internal desire of "unification" and "differentiation".