Stendhal: The Red and the Black

Stirling Haig

doi:10.1017/CBO9781139166188

Stendhal's great novel The Red and the Black, published in 1830, is seen as one of the most distinguished monuments of literary realism. In this introductory study, Stirling Haig shows how this realism derives from the incorporation of both history and legal reportage into the novel, and how it combines autobiography with mimesis. Professor Haig locates the novel in the context of Stendhal's own experiences as a Commissariat officer in the Napoleonic army, journalist, opera-lover, salon dandy and traveller in Italy and Restoration France, and highlights the constant inter-penetration of personal, documentary, and fictional elements in Stendhal's writings.

"...a concise yet perspicacious treatment of the most important features of the novel." Nineteenth-Century French Studies

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Note on translations
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Chronology
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1 - The Red and the Black: the background
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2 - The Red and the Black: the novel
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3 - Stendhal's mirrors
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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Acknowledgements
pp vi-vi

Note on translations
pp vii-vii

Chronology
pp viii-xiv

1 - The Red and the Black: the background
pp 1-13

2 - The Red and the Black: the novel
pp 14-87

3 - Stendhal's mirrors
pp 88-97

Guide to further reading
pp 98-102

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