The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud  

"Flaubert's mock dictionary became an inexhaustible hunting ground for bourgeoisophobes; he drew it from his sottisier, a lovingly gathered bouquet of inane opinions intended to supply material for the second volume of his last, unfinished novel, Bouvard and Pecuchet."--The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud (5 vols, 1984-1998) by Peter Gay

"Zola's English publisher, Henry Vizetelly, went to prison in 1889 for not expurgating his translation of La Terre enough; van Deyssel, under attack for being too faithful a disciple of his filthy French models , censored himself in the second edition of Een Liefde and retreated from his provocative naturalism altogether."--The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud (5 vols, 1984-1998) by Peter Gay