Approaches to Teaching Flaubert's Madame Bovary is an insightful overview of the current critical scene and contains a rich array of stances toward Flaubert's work. The general level of discourse is high, serious, and engaging, and some of the individual essays are brilliant. Those of us who teach Madame Bovary will benefit greatly from this Approaches volume.--Sandy Petrey, author of Realism and Revolution: Balzac, Stendhal, Zola, and the Performances of History