Reading the European novel to 1900 : a critical study of major fiction from Cervantes' Don Quixote to Zola's Germinal

Content: Acknowledgments ix   1 Introduction: The Odyssey of Reading Novels 1    2 MigueldeCervantes   Don Quixote (1605, 1615): Inventing the Novel 25    3 Reading Stendhal   s The Red and the Black (1830) and The Charterhouse of Parma (1839): Character and Caricature 55    1    Perhaps   :The Red and the Black as Psychological Novel and Political Anatomy 56    2 The Charterhouse of Parma: Narrative as Energy, Reading as Play 69    4 PredatoryBehaviorinBalzac   sP\'ere Goriot (1835): Paris as a 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 and Desire 107    2 Briefly Discussing the Puzzles of Sentimental Education 124    6 ReadingDostoevsky   sNotes from Underground (1864) and Crime and Punishment (1866) 133    1 Notes from Underground: The Piano Plays Back 133    2 Crime and Punishment: Raskolnikov   s Descent and Rebirth 146    7 Hyperbole and Incongruity in Dostoevsky   s The Brothers Karamazov (1880): Excess and Turmoil as Modes of Being 171    8 Tolstoy   sWar and Peace (1869): The Novel as Historical Epic 203    9 Tolstoy   sAnna Karenina (1877): Exploring Passions and Values 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