Stendhal: The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma [Paperback]

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.Roger Pearson is Professor of Frenchat the University of Oxford and a Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford He is a Fellow of the British Academy and Officier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Acad?miques

Introduction  1. Letters to a friend  2. The Red and the Black - topicality and realism, plausibility and representation  3.The Charterhouse of Parma - mirror or myth?, psychoanalysis and story-telling; perspectives  Part 1: Nineteenth-century views  4. 1831 - Balzac's response to The Red and the Black  5. 1832 - from Stendhal's own draft review of The Red and the Black  6. 1840 - from Balzac's review of The Charterhouse of Parma  7. 1854 - Sainte-Beuve on The Red and the Black  8. 1864 - Hippolyte Taine on characterization and style  9. 1880 - Emile Zola on Stendhal the psychologist  10. 1882 - Paul Bourget on Standhal and The Red and the Black  11. 1892 - Emile Faguet on The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma  Part 2: Modern readings  12. Realism - Erich Auerbach on The Red and the lSh