Opera in the Novel from Balzac to Proust

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ID19904534
AuthorsCormac Newark (University of Ulster, corresponding author)
Year2011
Publication date2011-03-31
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueOpera in the Novel from Balzac to Proust (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511921216
OpenAlexW115765432
Open LibraryOL34458524M
ISBN9780511921216
LanguageEN
References cited30

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 Comédie humaine to Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu, by way of (among others) Dumas père's Le Comte de Monte-Cristo and Leroux's Le Fantôme de l'Opéra. Attentive to textual and musical detail alike in the works, the study also delves deep into their reception contexts. The result is a compelling cultural-historical account: of changing ways of making sense of operatic experience from the 1820s to the 1920s, and of a perennial writerly fascination with the recording of that experience

Art · Art history · Humanities · Literature · Musical · Opera · Style (visual arts) · French Literature and Poetry · Historical and Literary Studies · Renaissance Literature and Culture

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