Reading the European novel to 1900 : a critical study of major fiction from Cervantes' Don Quixote to Zola's Germinal

306 Pages·2014·2.632 MB·English

by  Schwarz, Daniel R

R E A D I N G T H E N O V E L
Reading the
European Novel
to 1900
Daniel R. Schwarz
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Reading the European Novel to 1900
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READINGTHENOVEL
GeneralEditor:DanielR.Schwarz
Theaimofthisseriesistoprovidesubstantivecriticalintroductionstoreading
novelsintheBritish,Irish,American,andEuropeantraditions.
Published
ReadingtheNineteenth-CenturyNovel HarryE.ShawandAlisonCase
ReadingtheModernBritishandIrishNovel1890–1930 DanielR.Schwarz
ReadingtheNovelinEnglish1950–2000 BrianW.Shaffer
ReadingtheAmericanNovel1780–1865 ShirleySamuels
ReadingtheAmericanNovel1865–1914 G.R.Thompson
ReadingtheAmericanNovel1920–2010 JamesPhelan
ReadingtheContemporaryIrishNovel1987–2007 LiamHarte
ReadingtheEuropeanNovelto1900 DanielR.Schwarz
Forthcoming
ReadingtheModernEuropeanNovelsince1900 DanielR.Schwarz
ReadingtheEighteenth-CenturyEnglishNovel DavidH.Richter
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Reading the European
Novel to 1900
A Critical Study of Major Fiction
from Cervantes’ Don Quixote
to Zola’s Germinal
Daniel R. Schwarz
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ReadingtheEuropeanNovelto1900:aCriticalStudyofMajorFictionfromCervantes’Don
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AsyousetoutforIthaka
hopeyourroadisalongone
fullofadventure,fullofdiscovery,
Laistrygonians,Cyclops,
angryPoseidon–don’tbeafraidofthem:
you’llneverfindthingslikethatonyourway
aslongasyoukeepyourthoughtsraisedhigh,
aslongasarareexcitement
stirsyourspiritandyourbody,
Laistrygonians,Cyclops,
wildPoseidon–youwon’tencounterthem
unlessyoubringthemalonginsideyoursoul,
unlessyoursoulsetsthemupinfrontofyou.
(ConstantineP.Cavafy,“Ithaka,”trans.GailHolst-Warhaft)
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ForMarciaJacobson–lifepartner,perceptivenovelreader,
splendideditor–withloveandappreciation
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
1 Introduction:TheOdysseyofReadingNovels 1
2 MigueldeCervantes’DonQuixote(1605,1615):Inventing
theNovel 25
3 ReadingStendhal’sTheRedandtheBlack(1830)andThe
CharterhouseofParma(1839):CharacterandCaricature 55
1 “Perhaps”:TheRedandtheBlackasPsychologicalNoveland
PoliticalAnatomy 56
2 TheCharterhouseofParma:NarrativeasEnergy,Reading
asPlay 69
4 PredatoryBehaviorinBalzac’sPe`reGoriot(1835):ParisasaTrope
forMoralCannibalism 89
5 Flaubert’sMadameBovary(1857)andSentimentalEducation
(1869):TheAestheticNovel 107
1 MadameBovary:LiteraryFormExaminingProvincialManners
andDesire 107
2 BrieflyDiscussingthePuzzlesofSentimentalEducation 124
6 ReadingDostoevsky’sNotesfromUnderground(1864)and
CrimeandPunishment(1866) 133
1 NotesfromUnderground:ThePianoPlaysBack 133
2 CrimeandPunishment:Raskolnikov’sDescentandRebirth 146
7 HyperboleandIncongruityinDostoevsky’sTheBrothers
Karamazov(1880):ExcessandTurmoilasModesofBeing 171
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Contents
8 Tolstoy’sWarandPeace(1869):TheNovelasHistoricalEpic 203
9 Tolstoy’sAnnaKarenina(1877):ExploringPassionsandValuesin
Nineteenth-CenturyRussia 231
10 EmileZola’sGerminal(1885):TheAesthetics,Thematics,and
IdeologyoftheNovelofPurpose 253
SelectedBibliography(IncludingWorksCited) 273
Index 279
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