Schwarz Reading the European Novel to 1900

A Critical Study of Major Fiction from Cervantes' Don Quixote to Zola's Germinal
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-60481-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 1, 304 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Reading the Novel

* Offers a close reading of individual texts with attention totheir cultural and canonical context

* Examines the history and evolution of the novel to 1900 anddefines each author's aesthetic, cultural, political, andhistorical significance

* Covers essential and frequently taught masterworks up to 1900,including Cervantes' Don Quixote; Tolstoy'sWar and Peace and Anna Karenina; Dostoevsky'sNotes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, andThe Brothers Karamazov; Stendhal's The Red and theBlack and The Charterhouse of Parma; Flaubert'sMadame Bovary and Sentimental Education;Balzac's Pere Goriot; and Zola'sGerminal

* Written with students and teachers in mind, this book providesaccessible and engaging discussions of each novel, along withimportant pedagogical tools

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schwarz, Daniel R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
1 Introduction: The Odyssey of Reading Novels 1
2 MigueldeCervantes'Don Quixote (1605, 1615): Inventingthe Novel 25
3 Reading Stendhal's The Red and the Black (1830) and TheCharterhouse of Parma (1839): Character and Caricature 55
1 "Perhaps":The Red and the Black as PsychologicalNovel and Political Anatomy 56
2 The Charterhouse of Parma: Narrative as Energy, Reading asPlay 69
4 PredatoryBehaviorinBalzac'sP`ere Goriot (1835): Paris asa Trope for Moral Cannibalism 89
5 Flaubert'sMadame Bovary (1857) and Sentimental Education(1869): The Aesthetic Novel 107
1 Madame Bovary: Literary Form Examining Provincial Manners andDesire 107
2 Briefly Discussing the Puzzles of Sentimental Education124
6 ReadingDostoevsky'sNotes from Underground (1864) andCrime and Punishment (1866) 133
1 Notes from Underground: The Piano Plays Back 133
2 Crime and Punishment: Raskolnikov's Descent and Rebirth146
7 Hyperbole and Incongruity in Dostoevsky's The BrothersKaramazov (1880): Excess and Turmoil as Modes of Being 171
8 Tolstoy'sWar and Peace (1869): The Novel as HistoricalEpic 203
9 Tolstoy'sAnna Karenina (1877): Exploring Passions andValues in Nineteenth-Century Russia 231
10 Emile Zola's Germinal (1885): The Aesthetics,Thematics, and Ideology of the Novel of Purpose 253
Selected Bibliography (IncludingWorks Cited) 273
Index 279

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel R. Schwarz is Frederic J. Whiton Professor ofEnglish Literature and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow atCornell University, where he has taught since 1968. He is regardedas among the world's leading critic-scholars of the form,history, and meaning of the novel.He has written sixteen bookscovering a wide variety of subjects from renowned studies of JosephConrad, James Joyce, Wallace Stevens, and critical theory as wellas the Holocaust and New York City culture. Most recently,he is the author of Crises and Turmoil at the New YorkTimes, (2012; new paperback edition, 2014), In Defense ofReading: Teaching Literature in the Twenty-First Century(Wiley-Blackwell, 2008), and Reading the Modern British andIrish Novel 1890-1930 (Blackwell, 2004). He blogs regularly onthe media and higher education for the Huffington Post andhas lectured all over the world.