Opera in the Novel from Balzac to Proust

by Cormac Newark

Book Overview

The turning point of Madame Bovary, which Flaubert memorably set at the opera, is only the most famous example of a surprisingly long tradition, one common to a range of French literary styles and sub-genres. In the first book-length study of that tradition to appear in English, Cormac Newark examines representations of operatic performance from Balzac's La Com die humaine to Proust's la recherche du temps perdu, by way of (among others) Dumas p re's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521118905
• ISBN13: 9780521118903
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"