ABSTRACT
Both critic and writer, Stendhal has now become established as one of realism's founding fathers. Dr Pearson's book maps out, for the first time, the critical reception of Stendhal's two most widely read novels, The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma since their publication in 1830 and 1839 respectively. In part one he provides generous samples of the most important nineteenth-century responses to the novels, almost all of them translated into English for the first time. Part two presents a full range of the most authoritative and influential readings since 1945, which illustrate a wide variety of critical approaches.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |25 pages
Introduction
part |29 pages
Nineteenth-Century Views
chapter |2 pages
1831: Balzac's response to The Red and the Black *
chapter |3 pages
1840: From Balzac's review of The Charterhouse of Parma *
chapter |1 pages
1854: Sainte-Beuve on The Red and the Black *
chapter |4 pages
1864: Hippolyte Taine on characterization and style *
chapter |4 pages
1880: Emile Zola on Stendhalthe psychologist *
chapter |5 pages
1882: Paul Bourget on Stendhal and The Red and the Black *
part |191 pages
Modern Readings
part |21 pages
‘Realism'
chapter |11 pages
Erich Auerbach on The Red and the Black
chapter |8 pages
Georges Blin on ‘realism' and ‘point of view' *
part |12 pages
Thematic Criticism
chapter |10 pages
Jean-Pierre Richard on Stendhal's ‘imaginary universe'
part |35 pages
Existentialism and Marxism
chapter |18 pages
Victor Brombert on freedom in The Charterhouse of Parma
chapter |14 pages
Pierre Barbéris on politics in The Charterhouse of Parma
part |20 pages
Structuralism and Language
chapter |9 pages
Shoshana Felman on ‘madness' and ‘intoxication' 1
chapter |9 pages
Michel Crouzet on language and silence
part |33 pages
Psychoanalysis and Narratology
chapter |7 pages
Roland Barthes on The Charterhouse of Parma
chapter |24 pages
Peter Brooks on The Red and the Black
part |19 pages
Feminism and Gender Criticism
chapter |16 pages
Carol Mossman on The Red and the Black
part |49 pages
Readers and Representation