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Tuman looks at the life and love of Gustave Flaubert, a lifelong bachelor, who lived in his mother’s house till her death when he was fifty-two. Nearly all of his attachments were with older women, with the grandest and the longest lasting of these relationships forming the basis of his other great novel, Sentimental Education. Here too, as with so many adoring sons, the passion is almost entirely idealized, with only the barest physical contact between the two lovers.
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Tuman, M. (2019). The Dutiful Son—Flaubert. In: The Sensitive Son and the Feminine Ideal in Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15701-2_12
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