NP - More Wood and Flaubert

[Matthew Cissell]

It would make an interesting study to compare Wood's reading of A Sentimental Education with Bourdieu's. Mr Wood is fair enough when addressing the formal aspects of fiction, its mechanics if you will, but does that surprise anyone? He studied under Kermode, he's an Oxford chap. If we agree with his categories and judgements that is likely because, to some degree, we share his orthodoxy.