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W. W. Norton & Company : College Books

The Red and the Black

Contents

(+ = new to the Second Edition)

  • + Introduction to the Second Edition
  • The Text of The Red and the Black
  • Backgrounds and Contexts
  • + Map of France
  • + Political Chronology of France, 1774–1830
  • + Selected Chronology of French literature, 1800–1850
  • [The Trial of Antoine Berthet]
  • Stendhal on Stendhal
  • + From Love
  • + From The Life of Henry Brulard
  • Writers Read Stendhal
  • Paul Valéry • Stendhal
  • + Jules Janin • [On The Red and the Black]
  • Criticism
  • Erich Auerbach • In the Hôtel de La Mole
  • René Girard • The Red and the Black
  • + Victor Brombert • Le Rouge et le Noir: The Ambiguities of Freedom
  • + Shoshana Felman • “Madness” in the Novels of Stendhal
  • + Peter Brooks • The Novel and the Guillotine; or Fathers and Sons in Le Rouge et le Noir
  • + Sandy Petrey • Louis XVII and the Chevalier de la Vernaye: The Red, the Black, the Restoration
  • + Alison Finch • The Sense of an Ending in Stendhal’s Le Rouge et le Noir
  • + Lisa G. Algazi • The Quest for the Mother: A Psychoanalytic Feminist Reading of The Red and the Black
  • + Susanna Lee • [The Red and the Black: Navigating the Secular World]
  • +Stendhal: A Chronology
  • Selected Bibliography