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The red and the black : authoritative text, context and backgrounds, criticism
- Title
- The red and the black : authoritative text, context and backgrounds, criticism / Stendhal ; translated by Robert M. Adams ; edited by Susanna Lee.
- Author
- Stendhal, 1783-1842.
- Publication
- New York : W.W. Norton, ©2008.
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- Description
- xix, 631 pages; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Le Rouge et le Noir is a Bildungsroman. The protagonist, Julien Sorel, is a driven and intelligent man, but equally fails to understand much about the ways of the world he sets out to conquer. He harbours many romantic illusions, and becomes little more than a pawn in the political machinations of the influential and ruthless people who surround him. Stendhal uses his flawed hero to satirize French society of the time, particularly the hypocrisy and materialism of its aristocracy and the Roman Catholic Church, and to foretell a radical change in French society that will remove both of those forces from their positions of power. The red and the black of the title are the contrasting colors of the army uniform of the times and of the robes of priests, respectively. Julien Sorel observes early on in the novel that, under the Bourbon restoration it is impossible for a man of his class to distinguish himself in the army (as he might have done under Napoleon); now, only a career in the Church offers social advancement and glory. -- Wikipedia.
- Series Statement
- A Norton critical edition
- Uniform Title
- Rouge et le noir. English. (Adams)
- A Norton critical edition.
- Alternative Title
- Rouge et le noir.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Bildungsromans.
- Fiction.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (page 631).
- Language (note)
- Translated from the French.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 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 Henri Brulard -- Writers read Stendhal. Stendhal / Paul Valéry ; On The red and the black / Jules Janin -- Criticism. In the Hôtel de La Mole / Erin Auerbach ; The red and the black / René Girard ; The rouge et le noir : the ambiguities of freedom / Victor Brombert ; "Madness" in the novels of Stendhal / Shoshana Felman ; The novel and the guillotine; or, Fathers and sons in Le rouge et le noir / Peter Brooks ; Louis XVII and the Chevalier de la Vernaye : The red, the black, the Restoration / Sandy Petrey ; The sense of an ending in Stendhal's Le rouge et le noir / Alison Finch ; The quest for the mother : a psychoanalytic feminist reading of The red and the black / Lisa G. Algazi ; The red and the black : navigating the secular world / Susanna Lee -- Stendhal : a chronology.
- Call Number
- JFD 08-2273
- ISBN
- 9780393928839
- 0393928837
- LCCN
- 2007036467
- 99820122812
- OCLC
- 168722975
- Author
- Stendhal, 1783-1842.
- Title
- The red and the black : authoritative text, context and backgrounds, criticism / Stendhal ; translated by Robert M. Adams ; edited by Susanna Lee.
- Imprint
- New York : W.W. Norton, ©2008.
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- A Norton critical editionA Norton critical edition.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (page 631).
- Language
- Translated from the French.
- Processing Action
- committed to retain 20160630 20310630 EAST This title retained by Wesleyan University Library on behalf of the Eastern Academic Scholars Trust (EAST) print archive
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Added Author
- Adams, Robert M. (Robert Martin), 1915-1996.Lee, Susanna, 1970-
- Other Standard Identifier
- 99820122812
- Research Call Number
- JFD 08-2273