Reading the European Novel to 1900

DANIEL R. SCHWARZ is Frederic J. Whiton Professor of English Literature and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University, USA, where he has taught since 1968. He is regarded as among the world's leading critic scholars of the form, history, and meaning of the novel. He has written 18 books covering a wide variety of subjects from renowned studies of Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Wallace Stevens, and critical theory as well as the Holocaust and New York City culture. In recent years, he is the author of: Crises and Turmoil at the New York Times (2012; new paperback edition, 2014); In Defense of Reading: Teaching Literature in the Twenty-First Century (Wiley Blackwell, 2008); Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel 1890–1930 (Blackwell, 2004); How to Succeed in College and Beyond: The Art of Learning (Wiley Blackwell, 2016; Mandarin edition, Renmin, 2018); and Reading the Modertn European Novel since 1900 (Wiley Blackwell, 2017). He blogs regularly on the media and higher education for the Huffington Post and has lectured all over the world.

• Acknowledgments ix1 Introduction: The Odyssey of Reading Novels 12 Miguel de Cervantes’Don Quixote (1605, 1615): Inventing the Novel 253 Reading Stendhal’s The Red and the Black (1830) and The Charterhouse of Parma (1839): Character and Caricature 551 “Perhaps”:The Red and the Black as Psychological Novel and Political Anatomy 562 The Charterhouse of Parma: Narrative as Energy, Reading as Play 694 Predatory BehaviorinBalzac’sP`ere Goriot (1835): Paris as a Trope for Moral Cannibalism 895 Flaubert’s Madame Bovary (1857) and Sentimental Education (1869): The Aesthetic Novel 1071 Madame Bovary: Literary Form Examining Provincial Manners and Desire 1072 Briefly Discussing the Puzzles of Sentimental Education 1246 ReadingDostoevsky’sNotes from Underground (1864) and Crime and Punishment (1866) 1331 Notes from Underground: The Piano Plays Back 1332 Crime and Punishment: Raskolnikov’s Descent and Rebirth 1467 Hyperbole and Incongruity in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov (1880): Excess and Turmoil as Modes of Being 1718 Tolstoy’s War and Peace (1869): The Novel as Historical Epic 2039 Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (1877): Exploring Passions and Values in Nineteenth-Century Russia 23110 Emile Zola’s Germinal (1885): The Aesthetics, Thematics, and Ideology of the Novel of Purpose 253Selected Bibliography (IncludingWorks Cited) 273Index 279