ISBN 10: 1444330470

ISBN 13: 978-1444330472

Author: Daniel R. Schwarz

Offers a close reading of individual texts with attention to their cultural and canonical context
Examines the history and evolution of the novel to 1900 and defines each author’s aesthetic, cultural, political, and historical significance
Covers essential and frequently taught masterworks up to 1900, including Cervantes’ Don Quixote; Tolstoy’s War and Peace and Anna Karenina; Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, and The Brothers Karamazov; Stendhal’s The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma; Flaubert’s Madame Bovary and Sentimental Education; Balzac’s Pere Goriot; and Zola’s Germinal
Written with students and teachers in mind, this book provides accessible and engaging discussions of each novel, along with important pedagogical tools

Introduction: The Odyssey of Reading Novels (Pages: 1-23)
Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote (1605, 1615): Inventing the Novel (Pages: 25-54)
Reading Stendhal’s The Red and the Black (1830) and The Charterhouse of Parma (1839): Character and Caricature (Pages: 55-88)
Predatory Behavior in Balzac’s Père Goriot (1835): Paris as a Trope for Moral Cannibalism (Pages: 89-106)
Flaubert’s Madame Bovary (1857) and Sentimental Education (1869): The Aesthetic Novel (Pages: 107-132)
Reading Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground (1864) and Crime and Punishment (1866) (Pages: 133-170)
Hyperbole and Incongruity in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov (1880): Excess and Turmoil as Modes of Being (Pages: 171-201)
Tolstoy’s War and Peace (1869): The Novel as Historical Epic (Pages: 203-230)
Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (1877): Exploring Passions and Values in Nineteenth-Century Russia (Pages: 231-251)
Émile Zola’s Germinal (1885): The Aesthetics, Thematics, and Ideology of the Novel of Purpose (Pages: 253-272)

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Daniel R Schwarz,Reading the,European Novel to,1900 a Critical Study

Reading the European Novel to 1900 a Critical Study of Major Fiction from Cervantes’ Don Quixote to Zola’s Germinal 1st Edition by Daniel R Schwarz ISBN 1444330470 978-1444330472